Josephson Effect of Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensates in Laser-Modulated Double Wells

The Josephson effect of Bose condensates with a weak link created by superposing a far-off-resonant red-detuned laser beam on a double-well potential is theoretically considered. The numerical simulations show that there would be c/ear Josephson effect for this sort of three-well system. The present work gives a feasible scheme to study a new type of weak link which is crucial to investigate experimentally the Josephson effect.

Optimization of intergrain connection in high-temperature superconductor Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_x

A modified spark plasma sintering（SPS） technique was developed for the fabrication of Bi2Sr2CaCu2Ox（Bi-2212）superconducting bulks with better intergrain connections. The influences of the modified SPS process on the microstructures, intergrain connections, and related superconducting properties were systematically analyzed. The modified SPS process can not only increase the final density of the bulk samples but also enhance the texture structures. Clean grain boundaries were obtained instead of the intergrain amorphous layers. Therefore the intergranular properties were obviously improved. Due to the better intergrain connections and the stronger flux pinning properties, the critical current densities of the Bi-2212 bulks obtained via the modified SPS process were greatly increased. The obtained improvements imply the possibility for the modified SPS technique to be used for enhancing the superconducting properties of the Bi-2212 tapes.

Electric power generation technology of natural gas pressure reduction:Insights from black box-gray box hierarchical exergy analysis and evaluation method

Based on the“three box”exergy analysis model,a black box-gray box hierarchical exergy analysis and evaluation method is put forward in this paper,which is applied to evaluate the power generation technology of differential pressure produced by natural gas expansion.By using the exergy analysis theory,the black box-gray box hierarchical exergy analysis models of three differential pressure power generation technologies are established respectively.Firstly,the“black box”analysis models of main energy consuming equipment are established,and then the“gray box”analysis model of the total system is established.Based on the calculation results of exergy analysis indexes,the weak energy consumption equipment in the whole power generation process is accurately located.Taking a gas field in southwest China as an example,the comprehensive energy consumption evaluation of the three power generation technologies is carried out,and the technology with the best energy consumption condition among the three technologies is determined.Finally,the rationalization improvement measures are put forward from improving the air tightness,replacing the deflector and reducing the flow loss.

Properties of YBa_2Cu_3O_(7-δ) Granular Josephson Junction

YBa 2Cu 3O 7-δ weak link junctions with width from 0.1 mm to 0.3 mm and length from 0.2 mm to 0.5 mm was made by hand with a razor blade. The current voltage characteristics of the microbridges show, under microwave irradiation, pronounced Shapiro steps up to transition temperature. A careful measurement of the dependence of the critical supercurrent on the external magnetic field and laser light is presented.

Emergence of Community Structure in the Adaptive Social Networks

In this paper,we propose a simple model of opinion dynamics to construct social networks,based on the algorithm of link rewiring of local attachment(RLA)and global attachment(RGA).Generality,the system does reach a steady state where all individuals'opinion and the complex network structure are fixed.The RGA enhances the ability of consensus of opinion formation.Furthermore,by tuning a model parameter p,which governs the proportion of RLA and RGA,we find the formation of hierarchical structure in the social networks for p>p_(c).Here,p_(c) is related to the complex network size N and the minimal coordination number 2K.The model also reproduces many features of large social networks,including the“weak links”property.