Engineering high-performance dielectric chiral shells with enhanced chiral fields for sensitive chiral biosensor

Chiral metamaterials have been a topic of significant research interest in recent years due to their potential for various applications in nanophotonic devices and chiral biosensors.However,the intrinsic Ohmic loss in surface plasmonic resonance has limited their practical use,resulting in large light dissipation and weak chiroptical resonance.Here,we report on the development of high-performance dielectric chiral shells(DCS)through a two-step Si deposition process on a self-assembled microsphere monolayer.The form DCS sample completely oyercomes the cancelation effect originated from the disorder property of the micro-sphere monolayer in macroscale,and at a wavelength of approximately 710 nm,the measured optimal chiral signal(g-factor)and transmittance can reach up to 0.7 and 0.3,respectively.The strong chiroptical effect comes from the asymmetric circular displacement currents(i.e.,magnetic modes)enabled by the specific shell geometry.The chiral shell geometry,electromagnetic properties,sensor sensitivity of chiral molecules and figure of merit are systematically investigated.The DCSs demonstrate highly sensitive detection of chiral biomolecules owing to their easily accessible geometry and enhanced uniform chiral field.

Asymptotic Behavior of Soliton Solutions with a Double Spectral Parameter for Principal Chiral Field

The soliton solutions with a double spectral parameter for the principal chiral field are derived by Darboux transformation. The asymptotic behavior of the solutions as time tends to infinity is obtained and the speeds of the peaks in the asymptotic solutions are not constants.

Renormalization of one-pion exchange in higher partial waves in chiral effective field theory for antinucleon-nucleon system

The renormalization of the iterated onepion exchange(OPE)has been studied in chiral effective field theory(χEFT)for the antinucleon-nucleon(NN)scattering in some partial waves(Phys.Rev.C 105,054005(2022)).In this paper,we go further for the other higher partial waves but with total angular momenta J≤3.Contact interactions are represented by a complex spherical well in the coordinate space.Changing the radius of the spherical well means changing the cutoff.We check the cutoff dependence of the phase shifts,inelasticities,and mixing angles for the partial waves and show that contact interactions are needed at leading order in channels where the singular tensor potentials of OPE are attractive.The results are compared with the energy-dependent partial-wave analysis of NN scattering data.Comparisons between our conclusions and applications of χEFT to the nucleon-nuc-leon system are also discussed.

Strangeness S=-2 baryon-baryon interactions and femtoscopic correlation functions in covariant chiral effective field theory

We study the baryon-baryon interactions with strangeness S=-2 and corresponding momentum correlation functions in leading order covariant chiral effective field theory.The relevant low energy constants are determined by fitting to the latest HAL QCD simulations,taking into account all the coupled channels.Extrapolating the so-obtained strong interactions to the physical point and considering both quantum statistical effects and the Coulomb interaction,we calculate the ΛΛ and Ξ^(-)p correlation functions with a spherical Gaussian source and compare them with recent experimental data.We find a good agreement between our predictions and the experimental measurements by using the source radius determined in proton-proton correlations,which demonstrates the consistency between theory,experiment,and lattice QCD simulations.Moreover,we predict the Σ^(+)Σ^(+),Σ^(+)Λ,and Σ^(+)Σ^(-) interactions and corresponding momentum correlation functions.We further investigate the influence of the source shape and size of the hadron pair on the correlation functions studied and show that the current data are not very sensitive to the source shape.Future experimental measurements of the predicted momentum correlation functions will provide a non-trivial test of not only SU(3) flavor symmetry and its breaking but also the baryon-baryon interactions derived in covariant chiral effective field theory.

Neutron-antineutron oscillations in the deuteron studied with NN and ■N interactions based on chiral effective field theory

Neutron-antineutron(n−n)oscillations in the deuteron are considered.Specifically,the deuteron lifetime is calculated in terms of the free-space n−n oscillation time τn−n based on NN and NN interactions derived within chiral effective field theory(EFT).This results in(2.6±0.1)×10^22τ2^n−n s,which is close to the value obtained by Dover and collaborators more than three decades ago,but disagrees with recent EFT calculations that were performed within the perturbative scheme proposed by Kaplan,Savage,and Wise.Possible reasons for the difference are discussed.

Renormalizability of leading order covariant chiral nucleon-nucleon interaction

In this work,we study the renormalization group invariance of the recently proposed covariant power counting in the case of nucleon-nucleon scattering[Chin.Phys.C 42(2018)014103]at leading order.We show that unlike the Weinberg scheme,renormalizaion group invariance is satisfied in the^(3)P0 channel.Another interesting feature is that the^(1)S0 and^(3)P1 channels are correlated.Fixing the relevant low energy constants by ftting to the^(1)S0 phase shiftsat T_(lab)=10 and 25 MeV with cutoff values∧=400-650 MeV,one can describe the 3 P1 phase shifts relatively well.In the limit of∧→∞,the^(1)S0 phase shifts become cutoff-independent,whereas the 3P1 phase shifts do not.This is consistent with the Wigner bound and previous observations that the 3P1 channel is best treated perturbatively.As for the^(2)P1 and^(3)S1-^(3)D1 channels,renormalization group invariance is satisfied.

Chiral electric field in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

It has been proposed that electric fields may lead to chiral separation in quark-gluon plasma （QGP）. This is called the chiral electric separation effect. The strong electromagnetic field and the QCD vacuum can both be completely produced in off-central nuclear-nuclear collision. We use the Woods-Saxon nucleon distribution to calculate the electric field distributions of off-central collisions. The chiral electric field spatial distribution at Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider （RHIC） and Large Hadron Collider （LHC） energy regions are systematically studied in this paper. The dependence of the electric field produced by the thermal quark in the central position with different impact parameters on the proper time with different collision energies in the RHIC and LHC energy regions are studied in this paper.

Leading order relativistic hyperon-nucleon interactions in chiral effective field theory

We apply a recently proposed covariant power counting in nucleon-nucleon interactions to study strangeness S =-1 ΛN-Σ N interactions in chiral effective field theory. At leading order, Lorentz invariance introduces 12 low energy constants, in contrast to the heavy baryon approach, where only five appear. The Kadyshevsky equation is adopted to resum the potential in order to account for the non-perturbative nature of hyperon-nucleon interactions.A fit to the 36 hyperon-nucleon scattering data points yields χ2 16, which is comparable with the sophisticated phenomenological models and the next-to-leading order heavy baryon approach. However, one cannot achieve a simultaneous description of the nucleon-nucleon phase shifts and strangeness S =-1 hyperon-nucleon scattering data at leading order.

核子电磁形状因子振荡行为的新视角

本文研究了质子和中子的类时电磁形状因子.作者基于手征有效场论,通过求解李普曼-施温格方程得到了核子-反核子对散射振幅.以此为输入,利用扭曲波恩近似方法描述了核子末态相互作用,计算了正负电子湮灭到正反核子对的过程.通过拟合相移、截面以及微分截面等实验数据,定下了有效场论的未知耦合常数.进一步研究发现,可以利用两个分数振荡振子来描述核子电磁类时形状因子的振荡行为:一个表现为过阻尼振荡,在阈值附近占主导地位;另一个类似于欠阻尼振荡,在高能区起到重要作用.这种振荡行为对理解硬光子诱导的核子内部极化电荷的分布起着至关重要的作用.

Electromagnetic processes in a χEFT framework

Recently,we have derived a two–nucleon potential and consistent nuclear electromagnetic currents in chiral effective field theory with pions and nucleons as explicit degrees of freedom.The calculation of the currents has been carried out to include N 3 LO corrections,consisting of two–pion exchange and contact contributions.The latter involve unknown low-energy constants （LECs）,some of which have been fixed by fitting the np Sand P-wave phase shifts up to 100 MeV lab energies.The remaining LECs entering the current operator are determined so as to reproduce the experimental deuteron and trinucleon magnetic moments,as well as the np cross section.This electromagnetic current operator is utilized to study the nd and n 3 He radiative captures at thermal neutron energies.Here we discuss our results stressing on the important role played by the LECs in reproducing the experimental data.