Fast population transfer with a superconducting qutrit via non-Hermitian shortcut to adiabaticity

Non-Hermitian dissipation dynamics,capable of turning the conventionally detrimental decoherence effects to useful resources for state engineering,is highly attractive to quantum information processing.In this work,an effective scheme is developed for implementing fast population transfer with a superconducting qutrit via the non-Hermitian shortcut to adiabaticity(STA).We first deal with aΛ-configuration interaction between the qutrit and microwave drivings,in which the dephasing-assisted qubit state inversion requiring an overlarge dephasing rate is constructed non-adiabatically.After introducing a feasible ancillary driving that directly acts upon the qubit states,the target state transfer can be well realized but with an accessible qubit dephasing rate.Moreover,a high fidelity could be numerically obtained in the considered system.The strategy could provide a new route towards the non-Hermitian shortcut operations on superconducting quantum circuits.

Alternating shortcut nitrification-denitrification for nitrogen removal from soybean wastewater by SBR with real-time control

A novel treating technology for nitrogen removal from soybean wastewater was studied. The process for nitrogen removal was achieved by alternating aeration and mixing, combined with real\|time control strategies. Results showed that the COD and total nitrogen removal rates are more than 90% and 92% at COD and total nitrogen loads of 1\^0-1\^2 kg COD/(kgMLSS·d) and 0\^20-0\^27 kg TN/(kgMLSS·d), respectively. In addition, it could improve sludge settling property. SVI value is less than 70 g/ml during the whole cycles. The method not only may be adapted to treat soybean wastewater with high nitrogen, but also may be applied to treat other high nitrogen wastewater.

Organic matter and concentrated nitrogen removal by shortcut nitrification and denitrification from mature municipal landfill leachate

An UASB＋Anoxic/Oxic （A/O） system was introduced to treat a mature landfill leachate with low carbon-to-nitrogen ratio and high ammonia concentration. To make the best use of the biodegradable COD in the leaehate, the denitrifieation of NOx^--N in the reeireulation effluent from the elarifier was carried out in the UASB. The results showed that most biodegradable organic matters were removed by the denitrifieation in the UASB. The NH4^＋-N loading rate （ALR） of A/O reactor and operational temperature was 0.28- 0.60 kg NH4^＋-N/（m^3-d） and 17-29℃ during experimental period, respectively. The short-cut nitrification with nitrite accumulation efficiency of 90%-99% was stabilized during the whole experiment. The NH4^＋-N removal efficiency varied between 90% and 100%. When ALR was less than 0.45 kg NH4^＋-N/（m^3.d）, the NH4^＋-N removal efficiency was more than 98%. With the influent NH4^＋-N of 1200-1800 mg/L, the effluent NH4^＋-N was less than 15 mg/L. The shortcut nitrification and denitrifieation can save 40% carbon source, with a highly efficient denitrifieation taking place in the UASB. When the ratio of the feed COD to feed NH4^＋-N was only 2-3, the total inorganic nitrogen （TIN） removal efficiency attained 67%-80%. Besides, the sludge samples from A/O reactor were analyzed using FISH. The FISH analysis revealed that ammonia oxidation bacteria （AOB） accounted for 4% of the total eubaeterial population, whereas nitrite oxidation bacteria （NOB） accounted only for 0.2% of the total eubaeterial population.

An innovative membrane bioreactor and packed-bed biofilm reactor combined system for shortcut nitrification-denitrification

An innovative shortcut biological nitrogen removal system, consisting of an aerobic submerged membrane bioreactor （MBR） and an anaerobic packed-bed biofilm reactor （PBBR）, was evaluated for treating high strength ammonium-bearing wastewater. The system was seeded with enriched ammonia-oxidizing bacteria （AOB） and operated without sludge purge with a decreased hydraulic retention time （HRT） through three phases. MBR was successful in both maintaining nitrite ratio over 0.95 and nitrification efficiency higher than 98% at HRT of 24 h, and PBBR showed satisfactory denitrification efficiency with very low effluent nitrite and nitrate concentration （both below 3 mg/L）. By examining the nitrification activity of microorganism, it was found that the specifc ammonium oxidization rate （SAOR） increased from 0.17 to 0.51 g N/（g VSS.d） and then decreased to 0.22 g N/（g VSS.d） at the last phase, which resulted from the accumulation of extracellular polymers substances （EPS） and inert matters enwrapping around the zoogloea. In contrast, the average specific nitrite oxidization rate （SNOR） is 0.002 g N/（g VSS.d）, only 1% of SAOR. Because very little Nitrobactor has been detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization （FISH）, it is confirmed that the stability of high nitrite accumulation in MBR is caused by a large amount of AOB.

Shortcut Procedure for Inverted Batch Distillation Column (I) Multicomponent Ideal System

Inverted batch distillation column(stripper) is opposed to a conventional batch distillation col-umn(rectifier). It has a storage vessel at the top and products leave the column at the bottom. The batch stripper is favourable to separate mixtures with a small amount of light components by removing the heavy components as bottom products. In this paper, we are presenting a shortcut procedure based on our earlier work for design and simulation of the inverted batch distillation column, which is equivalent to the Fenske-Underwood-Gilliland procedure for continuous distillation. Given a separation task, we propose to compute the minimum number of stages(Nbmin) and the minimum reboil ratio(Rbmin) required in a batch stripper,which are the stages and reboil ratio required in a hypothetical inverted batch distillation column operating in total reboil ratio or having an infinite number of stages, respectively. Then, it is shown that the performance of inverted batch columns with a finite number of stages and reboil ratios could be correlated in Gilliland coordinates with the minimum stages Nbmin and the minimum reboil ratio Rbmin.

Control strategy of shortcut nitrification

Shortcut nitrification for ammonium-rich wastewater is energy-saving and cost-effective procedure that has become one of the hotspots in the field of biological denitrogenation. An orthogonal experiment was performed to study the combined effects of operational parameters on the performance of internal-loop airlift bioreactor for shortcut nitrification. The optimum operational parameters for the shortcut nitrification were fotmd as temperature 35 ℃, pH 8.0, dissolved oxygen concentration 1.0 mg/L, ammonium concentration 4 mmol/L and HRT 16 h, which have different influence on the performance of shortcut nitrification reactor. The pH, temperature and dissolved oxygen concentration have significant bearing on the process. The results showed that the shortcut nitrification reactor could be successfully started up within 42 d, and the reactor performance is steady with minimum NO2-/NOx- of 85.2%, maximum 93.4% and average value of 91.4% in effluent. Based on the analysis of experimental data, a new control strategy named “priority ＋ combination” for shortcut nitrification was suggested. Through this strategy, the startup and operation of shortcut nitrification for ammonium-rich sludge digester liquids were optimized. The control strategy works well to keep the reactor operation in steady state and in achieving high-efficiency for shortcut nitrification.

Random shortcuts induce phase synchronization in complex Chua systems

P This paper studies how phase synchronization in complex networks depends on random shortcuts, using the uous chaotic Chua system as the nodes of the networks. It is found that for a given coupling strength when the number of random shortcuts is greater than a threshold the phase synchronization is induced. Phase synchronization becomes evident and reaches its maximum as the number of random shortcuts is further increased. These phenomena imply that random shortcuts can induce and enhance the phase synchronization in complex Chua systems. Furthermore, the paper also investigates the effects of the coupling strength and it is found that stronger coupling makes it easier to obtain the complete phase synchronization.

Real-time OHT Dispatching Mechanism for the Interbay Automated Material Handling System with Shortcuts and Bypasses

As a key to improve the performance of the interbay automated material handling system （AMHS） in 300 mm semiconductor wafer fabrication system, the real- time overhead hoist transport （OHT） dispatching problem has received much attention. This problem is first formu- lated as a special form of assignment problem and it is proved that more than one solution will be obtained by Hungarian algorithm simultaneously. Through proposing and strictly proving two propositions related to the char- acteristics of these solutions, a modified Hungarian algo- rithm is designed to distinguish these solutions. Finally, a new real-time OHT dispatching method is carefully designed by implementing the solution obtained by the modified Hungarian algorithm. The experimental results of discrete event simulations show that, compared with con- ventional Hungarian algorithm dispatching method, the proposed dispatching method that chooses the solution with the maximum variance respectively reduces on average 4 s of the average waiting time and average lead time of wafer lots, and its performance is rather stable in multiple dif- ferent scenarios of the interbay AMHS with different quantities of shortcuts. This research provides an efficient real-time OHT dispatching mechanism for the interbay AMHS with shortcuts and bypasses.

Shortcut Algorithm for Simulation of Batch Extractive Distillation

The batch extractive distillation (BED) process has the advantages of both batch and extractive distillation. It is one of the most promising means for the separation of azeotropic and close-boiling point systems. However, so far this process has not been applied in industry due to its over-complexity. A new shortcut model was proposed to simulate the operation of the batch extractive distillation operations. This algorithm is based on the assumption that the batch extractive distillation column can be considered as a continuous extractive distillation column with changing feed at any time. Namely, the whole batch process is simulated as a succession of a finite number of steady states of short duration, in which holdup is considered as constant mole. For each period of time the batch extractive distillation process is solved through the algorithm for continuous extractive distillation. Finally, the practical implementation of the shortcut model is discussed and data from the laboratory and literature are presented. It is found that this model has better adaptability, more satisfactory accuracy and less calculative load than previous rigorous model. Hence the algorithm for simulating BED is verified.

Shortcut Method of Design and Energy-Saving Analysis of Sargent Dividing Wall Column

The Sargent dividing wall column can implement four products separation sequences in one column based on Fully Thermally Coupled Distillation Column. The initial design parameters are required for the design optimization or dynamic control of the Sargent dividing wall column, and in order to make the rigorous simulation of the Sargent dividing wall column more conducive to convergence, a ten column model for complex Sargent column is established in this paper,and the shortcut design method of this model is proposed. The internal minimum vapor and liquid flow are obtained by the Underwood equations and the mass balance method and the V-min method. The separation for a 4-component shortcut mixture of pentane, hexane, heptane and octane was considered, while the initial values of design parameters and the ratio of vapor-liquid distribution of each column were calculated by using the shortcut design method of a ten column model. And by comparing the shortcut calculations with rigorous simulation results, the practicality and reliability of shortcut calculations were verified. The reason for energy saving was analyzed based on back-mixing. A virtual heat exchanger is proposed to make the Sargent dividing wall column more energy efficient.

Shortcut-based quantum gates on superconducting qubits in circuit QED

Construction of optimal gate operations is significant for quantum computation.Here an efficient scheme is proposed for performing shortcut-based quantum gates on superconducting qubits in circuit quantum electrodynamics(QED).Two four-level artificial atoms of Cooper-pair box circuits,having sufficient level anharmonicity,are placed in a common quantized field of circuit QED and are driven by individual classical microwaves.Without the effect of cross resonance,one-qubit NOT gate and phase gate in a decoupled atom can be implemented using the invariant-based shortcuts to adiabaticity.With the assistance of cavity bus,a one-step SWAP gate can be obtained within a composite qubit-photon-qubit system by inversely engineering the classical drivings.We further consider the gate realizations by adjusting the microwave fields.With the accessible decoherence rates,the shortcut-based gates have high fidelities.The present strategy could offer a promising route towards fast and robust quantum computation with superconducting circuits experimentally.

Fast generation of W state via superadiabatic-based shortcut in circuit quantum electrodynamics

We propose a scheme to fast prepare the three-qubit W state via superadiabatic-based shortcuts in a circuit quantumelectrodynamics (circuit QED) system. We derive the effective Hamiltonian to suppress the unwanted transitions betweendifferent eigenstates by counterdiabatic driving, and obtain the W state with high-fidelity based on the superadiabaticpassage. The numerical simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can accelerate the evolution, and is moreefficient than that with the adiabatic passage. In addition, the proposed scheme is robust to the decoherence caused by theresonator decay and qubit relaxation, and does not need additional parameters, which could be feasible in experiment.

Lie transformation on shortcut to adiabaticity in parametric driving quantum systems

Shortcut to adiabaticity(STA) is a speedway to produce the same final state that would result in an adiabatic, infinitely slow process. Two typical techniques to engineer STA are developed by either introducing auxiliary counterdiabatic fields or finding new Hamiltonians that own dynamical invariants to constraint the system into the adiabatic paths. In this paper,an efficient method is introduced to naturally cover the above two techniques with a unified Lie algebraic framework and neatly remove the design difficulties and loose assumptions in the two techniques. A general STA scheme for different potential expansions concisely achieves with the aid of squeezing transformations.

Search by shortcuts in P2P scientific collaboration system

A P2P scientific collaboration is a P2P network whose members can share documents, co-compile papers and codes, and communicate with each other instantly. From the simulation experiment we found that P2P collaboration system is a power-law network with a tail between -2 and -3.We utilized the algorithm that searches by high-degree shortcuts to improve the scalability of p2p collaboration system. The experimental result shows that the algorithm works better than random walk algorithm.

Invariants-based shortcuts for fast generating Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state among three superconducting qubits

As one of the most promising candidates for implementing quantum computers, superconducting qubits（SQs） are adopted for fast generating the Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger（GHZ） state by using invariants-based shortcuts. Three SQs are separated and connected by two coplanar waveguide resonators（CPWRs） capacitively. The complicated system is skillfully simplified to a three-state system, and a GHZ state among three SQs is fast generated with a very high fidelity and simple driving pulses. Numerical simulations indicate the scheme is insensitive to parameter deviations. Besides, the robustness of the scheme against decoherence is discussed in detail.

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技巧SHORTCUTS：AFTER EFFECTS

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技巧SHORTCUTS：CINEMA 4D

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技巧SHORTCUTS：FREEHAND

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技巧SHORTCUTS：PHOTOSHOP

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