The effect of the fibre orientation of electrospun scaffolds on the matrix production of rabbit annulus fibrosus-derived stem cells

Annulus fibrosus （AF） tissue engineering has recently received increasing attention as a treatment for intervertebral disc 0VD） degeneration; however, such engineering remains challenging because of the remarkable complexity of AF tissue. In order to engineer a functional AF replacement, the fabrication of cell-scaffold constructs that mimic the cellular, biochemical and structural features of native AF tissue is critical. In this study, we fabricated aligned fibroua polyurethane scaffolds using an electrospinning technique and used them for culturing AF-derived-stem/progenitor cells （AFSCs）. Random fibrous scaffolds, also prepared via electrospinningy were used as a control. We compared the morphology, proliferation, gene expression and matrix production of AFSCs on aligned scaffolds and random scaffolds. There was no apparent difference in the attachment or proliferation of cells cultured on aligned scaffolds and random scaffolds. However, compared to cells on random scaffolds, the AFSCs on aligned scaffolds were more elongated and better aligned, and they exhibited higher gene expression and matrix production of coUagen-I and aggrecan. The gene expression and protein production of coUagen-II did not appear to differ between the two groups. Together, these findings indicate that aligned fibrous scaffolds may provide a favourable microenvironment for the differentiation of AFSCs into cells similar to outer AF cells, which predominantly produce collagen-I matrix.

Review of Matrix Aluminas for Refractory Formulations

Historically,ground calcined aluminas were the first high-alumina matrix products that were used in refractory formulations, in both shaped and unshaped products. At that time the flow properties of castables were enhanced by the use of silica fume. This was followed later by the development of fully ground reactive aluminas which contributed to the design of the matrix below 63 μm. In addition to aggregate fines,a range of bi-modal and multi-modal reactive aluminas were also developed. These not only gave improved physical properties but also better castable workability. This paper reviews matrix alumina developments over time,from basic ground calcines to complex multi-modal matrix products and their globally standardised manufacture.

Properties of Parity Non-conserved and Parity Conserved States in Matrix Product Systems

In terms of reflection transformation of a matrix product state （MPS）, the parity of the MPS is defined. Based on the reflective parity non-conserved MPS pair we construct the even-parity state ｜ψe〉 and the odd-parity state ｜ψσ〉. It is interesting to find that the parity non-conserved reflective MPS pair have no long-range correlations; instead the even-parity state ｜ψe〉 and the odd-parity state ｜ψo〉 constructed from them have the same long-range correlations for the parity non-conserved block operators. Moreover, the entanglement between a block of n contiguous spins and the rest of the spin chain for the states ｜ψe〉 and ｜ψo〉 is larger than that for the reflective MPS pair except for n = 1, and the difference of them approaches 1 monotonically and asymptotically from 0 as n increases from 1. These characteristics indicate that MPS parity as a conserved physical quantity represents a kind of coherent collective quantum mode, and that the parity conserved MPSs contain more correlation, coherence, and entanglement than the parity non-conserved ones.

MATRIX PRODUCT CODES WITH ROSENBLOOM-TSFASMAN METRIC

In this article, the Rosenbloom-Tsfasman metric of matrix product codes over finite commutative rings is studied and the lower bounds for the minimal Rosenbloom- Tsfasman distances of the matrix product codes axe obtained. The lower bounds of the dual codes of matrix product codes over finite commutative Frobenius rings are also given.

Structure of continuous matrix product operator for transverse field Ising model:An analytic and numerical study

We study the structure of the continuous matrix product operator(cMPO)^([1]) for the transverse field Ising model(TFIM).We prove TFIM’s cMPO is solvable and has the form T=e^(-1/2H_(F)).H_(F) is a non-local free fermionic Hamiltonian on a ring with circumferenceβ,whose ground state is gapped and non-degenerate even at the critical point.The full spectrum of H_(F) is determined analytically.At the critical point,our results verify the state–operator-correspondence^([2]) in the conformal field theory(CFT).We also design a numerical algorithm based on Bloch state ansatz to calculate the lowlying excited states of general(Hermitian)cMPO.Our numerical calculations coincide with the analytic results of TFIM.In the end,we give a short discussion about the entanglement entropy of cMPO’s ground state.

Time-Dependent Density Matrix Renormalization Group Coupled with n-Mode Representation Potentials for the Excited State Radiationless Decay Rate:Formalism and Application to Azulene

We propose a method for calculating the nonradiative decay rates for polyatomic molecules including anharmonic effects of the potential energy surface(PES)in the Franck-Condon region.The method combines the n-mode repre-sentation method to construct the ab initio PES and the nearly exact time-dependent density matrix renormalization group method(TD-DMRG)to simulate quantum dynamics.In addition,in the framework of TD-DMRG,we further develop an algorithm to calculate the final-state-resolved rate coefficient which is very useful to analyze the contribution from each vibrational mode to the transition process.We use this method to study the internal conversion(IC)process of azulene after taking into account the anharmonicity of the ground state PES.The results show that even for this semi-rigid molecule,the intramode anharmonicity enhances the IC rate significantly,and after considering the two-mode coupling effect,the rate increases even further.The reason is that the anharmonicity enables the C-H vibrations to receive electronic energy while C-H vibrations do not contribute on the harmonic PES as the Huang-Rhys factor is close to 0.

An optimized infinite time-evolving block decimation algorithm for lattice systems

The infinite time-evolving block decimation algorithm(i TEBD)provides an efficient way to determine the ground state and dynamics of the quantum lattice systems in the thermodynamic limit.In this paper we suggest an optimized way to take the i TEBD calculation,which takes advantage of additional reduced decompositions to speed up the calculation.The numerical calculations show that for a comparable computation time our method provides more accurate results than the traditional i TEBD,especially for lattice systems with large on-site degrees of freedom.

HOSVD-based LPV modeling and mixed robust H_2/H_∞ control design for air-breathing hypersonic vehicle

This paper focuses on synthesizing a mixed robust H_2/H_∞ linear parameter varying（LPV） controller for the longitudinal motion of an air-breathing hypersonic vehicle via a high order singular value decomposition（HOSVD） approach.The design of hypersonic flight control systems is highly challenging due to the enormous complexity of the vehicle dynamics and the presence of significant uncertainties.Motivated by recent results on both LPV control and tensor-product（TP） model transformation approach,the velocity and altitude tracking control problems for the air-breathing hypersonic vehicle is reduced to that of a state feedback stabilizing controller design for a polytopic LPV system with guaranteed performances.The controller implementation is converted into a convex optimization problem with parameterdependent linear matrix inequalities（LMIs） constraints,which is intuitively tractable using LMI control toolbox.Finally,numerical simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Adaptive neural network control for coordinated motion of a dual-arm space robot system with uncertain parameters

Control of coordinated motion between the base attitude and the arm joints of a free-floating dual-arm space robot with uncertain parameters is discussed. By combining the relation of system linear momentum conversation with the Lagrangian approach, the dynamic equation of a robot is established. Based on the above results, the free-floating dual-arm space robot system is modeled with RBF neural networks, the GL matrix and its product operator. With all uncertain inertial system parameters, an adaptive RBF neural network control scheme is developed for coordinated motion between the base attitude and the arm joints. The proposed scheme does not need linear parameterization of the dynamic equation of the system and any accurate prior-knowledge of the actual inertial parameters. Also it does not need to train the neural network offline so that it would present real-time and online applications. A planar free-floating dual-arm space robot is simulated to show feasibility of the proposed scheme.

Entanglement property in matrix product spin systems

We study the entanglement property in matrix product spin-ring systems systemically by von Neumann entropy. We find that： （i） the Hilbert space dimension of one spin determines the upper limit of the maximal value of the entanglement entropy of one spin, while for multiparticle entanglement entropy, the upper limit of the maximal value depends on the dimension of the representation matrices. Based on the theory, we can realize the maximum of the entanglement entropy of any spin block by choosing the appropriate control parameter values. （ii） When the entanglement entropy of one spin takes its maximal value, the entanglement entropy of an asymptotically large spin block, i.e. the renormalization group fixed point, is not likely to take its maximal value, and so only the entanglement entropy Sn of a spin block that varies with size n can fully characterize the spin-ring entanglement feature. Finally, we give the entanglement dynamics, i.e. the Hamiltonian of the matrix product system.

Quantum phase transitions about parity breaking in matrix product systems

According to our scheme to construct quantum phase transitions （QPTs） in spin chain systems with matrix product ground states, we first successfully combine matrix product state （MPS） QPTs with spontaneous symmetry breaking. For a concrete model, we take into account a kind of MPS QPTs accompanied by spontaneous parity breaking, though for either side of the critical point the GS is typically unique, and show that the kind of MPS QPTs occur only in the thermodynamic limit and are accompanied by the appearance of singularities, diverging correlation length, vanishing energy gap and the entanglement entropy of a half-infinite chain not only staying finite but also whose first derivative discontinuous.

Quantum phase transitions in matrix product states of one-dimensional spin-(1/2) chains

For the matrix product system of a one-dimensional spin-1/2 chain, we present a new model of quantum2 phase transitions and find that in the thermodynamic limit, both sides of the critical point are respectively described by phases ｜Ψa 〉=｜1··· 1 representing all particles spin up and ｜Ψb 〉=｜0··· 0 representing all particles spin down, while the phase transition point is an isolated intermediate-coupling point where√ the two phases coexist equally, which is2 described by the so-called N-qubit maximally entangled GHZ state ｜Ψpt =√2/2（｜1··· 1 ＋｜0··· 0）. At the critical point,2the physical quantities including the entanglement are not discontinuous and the matrix product system has longrange correlation and N-qubit maximal entanglement. We believe that our work is helpful for having a comprehensive understanding of quantum phase transitions in matrix product states of one-dimensional spin chains and of potential directive significance to the preparation and control of one-dimensional spin lattice models with stable coherence and N-qubit maximal entanglement.

Quantum phase transitions in matrix product states of one-dimensional spin-1 chains

We present a new model of quantum phase transitions in matrix product systems of one-dimensional spin-1 chains and study the phases coexistence phenomenon. We find that in the thermodynamic limit the proposed system has three different quantum phases and by adjusting the control parameters we are able to realize any phase, any two phases equal coexistence and the three phases equM coexistence. At every critical point the physical quantities including the entanglement are not discontinuous and the matrix product system has long-range correlation and N-spin maximal entanglement. We believe that our work is helpful for having a comprehensive understanding of quantum phase transitions in matrix product states of one-dimensional spin chains and of certain directive significance to the preparation and control of one-dimensional spin lattice models with stable coherence and N-spin maximal entanglement.

Matrix Product State, Quantum Entanglement, and Criticality in the One-Dimensional Dimerized Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Model

The matrix product state （MPS） is utilized to investigate the ground state properties and quantum phase transitions （OPTs） of the dimerized antiferromagnetic Heisenberg （DAH） model. The ground state MPS wavefunctions determined by the infinite time-evolving block decimation （iTEBD） algorithm are shown to be very efficient descriptions of DAH model. In the thermodynamic limit, the quantum entanglement, the bond energy~ and the nearest-neighbor correlations are calculated. It is revealed that the singular behavior of the bipartite entanglement can detect the QPTs directly. The critical point J2c= 1.0 is determined evidently, and the quantum phase transition is argued to belong to the second-order category. At the critical point, logarithmic divergent character of the block entanglement is observed, and the system can be described by a free bosonic field theory.

A Note on Eigenvalues of Hermite Matrix

This note investigates the relationship of eigenvalues of Hermitian matrices P and UPU＋ with UU＋ = Ik and k ≤ n. We present several equivalent conditions for λi（UPU＋） = λi（P） （i ≤ k ≤ n）.

Effects of Bond Alternation on the Ground-State Phase Diagram of One-Dimensional XXZ Model

The ground-state properties and quantum phase transitions （ QPTs） of the one-dimensional bond-Mternative XXZ model are investigated by the infinite time-evolving block decimation （iTEBD） method. The bond-alternative effects on its ground-state phase diagram are discussed in detail. Once the bond alternation is taken into account, the antiferromagnetic phase （△ 〉 1） will be destroyed at a given critical point and change into a disordered phase without nonlocal string order. The QPT is shown to be second-order, and the whole phase diagram is provided. For the ferromagnetic phase region （△ 〈 --1）, the critical point re always equals 1 （independent of △）, and the QPT for this case is shown to be first-order. The dimerized Heisenberg model is also discussed, and two disordered phases can be distinguished by with or without nonlocal string orders. Both the bipartite entanglement and the fidelity per site, as two kinds of model-independent measures, are capable of describing all the QPTs in such a quantum model.

Some Secondary Differentials on the Fourth Line of the Adams Spectral Sequence

In this paper,we determine some nontrivial secondary Adams differentials on the fourth line Ext^(4,*)_A(Z/p,Z/p)of the classical Adams spectral sequence.Specially,among these differentials,two of them are obtained via the matrix Massey products.