The design of cost-effective electrocatalysts is an open challenging for oxygen evolution reaction(OER)due to the“stable-oractive”dilemma.Zirconium dioxide(ZrO_(2)),a versatile and low-cost material that can be stab...The design of cost-effective electrocatalysts is an open challenging for oxygen evolution reaction(OER)due to the“stable-oractive”dilemma.Zirconium dioxide(ZrO_(2)),a versatile and low-cost material that can be stable under OER operating conditions,exhibits inherently poor OER activity from experimental observations.Herein,we doped a series of metal elements to regulate the ZrO_(2)catalytic activity in OER via spin-polarized density functional theory calculations with van der Waals interactions.Microkinetic modeling as a function of the OER activity descriptor(G_(O*)-G_(HO*))displays that 16 metal dopants enable to enhance OER activities over a thermodynamically stable ZrO_(2)surface,among which Fe and Rh(in the form of single-atom dopant)reach the volcano peak(i.e.the optimal activity of OER under the potential of interest),indicating excellent OER performance.Free energy diagram calculations,density of states,and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations further showed that Fe and Rh are the effective dopants for ZrO_(2),leading to low OER overpotential,high conductivity,and good stability.Considering cost-effectiveness,single-atom Fe doped ZrO_(2)emerged as the most promising catalyst for OER.This finding offers a valuable perspective and reference for experimental researchers to design cost-effective catalysts for the industrial-scale OER production.展开更多
Very high energy(VHE)photons may have a higher survival rate than that expected in standard-model physics,as suggested by the recently reported gamma ray burst GRB221009A.While a photon-axion like particle(ALP)oscilla...Very high energy(VHE)photons may have a higher survival rate than that expected in standard-model physics,as suggested by the recently reported gamma ray burst GRB221009A.While a photon-axion like particle(ALP)oscillation can boost the survival rate of the VHE photons,current works have not been based on concrete particle models,leaving the identity of the corresponding ALP unclear.Here,we show that the required ALP scenario is consistent with the electroweak axion with an anomaly free Z_(10)Froggatt–Nielsen symmetry.展开更多
Motivated by the determination of black hole masses with gravitational-wave observations,we calculate the evolution of massive stars through presupernova stages and obtain the mass distribution of black holes.In the f...Motivated by the determination of black hole masses with gravitational-wave observations,we calculate the evolution of massive stars through presupernova stages and obtain the mass distribution of black holes.In the first part,we calculate the evolution of He stars with masses of 30-120 M_(⊙).We study in detail how convective carbon shell burning controls pair-instability pulsations before and during oxygen burning and determine their final fates.In the second part,we calculate the evolution of H-rich stars with initial masses of 13-80 M_(⊙) until Fe core collapse and obtain the possible black hole mass range by applying the criterion of the compactness parameters.From these models,we predict the mass distribution of black holes for stars that undergo Fe core collapse and pair-instability pulsation.The predicted masses for black holes range from 4.2 to 46 M_(⊙),which are consistent with the gravitational-wave observations.展开更多
We examine the possibility of applying the baryonic acoustic oscillation reconstruction method to improve the neutrino massΣm_νconstraint.Thanks to the Gaussianization of the process,we demonstrate that the reconstr...We examine the possibility of applying the baryonic acoustic oscillation reconstruction method to improve the neutrino massΣm_νconstraint.Thanks to the Gaussianization of the process,we demonstrate that the reconstruction algorithm could improve the measurement accuracy by roughly a factor of two.On the other hand,the reconstruction process itself becomes a source of systematic error.While the algorithm is supposed to produce the displacement field from a density distribution,various approximations cause the reconstructed output to deviate on intermediate scales.Nevertheless,it is still possible to benefit from this Gaussianized field,given that we can carefully calibrate the“transfer function”between the reconstruction output and theoretical displacement divergence from simulations.The limitation of this approach is then set by the numerical stability of this transfer function.With an ensemble of simulations,we show that such systematic error could become comparable to statistical uncertainties for a DESI-like survey and be safely neglected for other less ambitious surveys.展开更多
基金the funding support from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,China[Project No.CityU11308923]the Basic Research Project from Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee in Shenzhen,China(No.JCYJ20210324134012034)+5 种基金the Applied Research Grant of City University of Hong Kong(project No.of 9667247)Chow Sang Sang Group Research Fund of City University of Hong Kong(project No.9229123)the funding supported by the Seed Collaborative Research Fund Scheme of State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution which receives regular research funding from Innovation and Technology Commission(ITC)of the Hong Kong SAR Governmentthe JSPS KAKENHI(No.JP23K13703 and JP23KF0102)the high-level science and technology talents project of Lvliang City(No.2022RC07)foundation of Shanxi supercomputing center of China(No.11sxsc202301).
文摘The design of cost-effective electrocatalysts is an open challenging for oxygen evolution reaction(OER)due to the“stable-oractive”dilemma.Zirconium dioxide(ZrO_(2)),a versatile and low-cost material that can be stable under OER operating conditions,exhibits inherently poor OER activity from experimental observations.Herein,we doped a series of metal elements to regulate the ZrO_(2)catalytic activity in OER via spin-polarized density functional theory calculations with van der Waals interactions.Microkinetic modeling as a function of the OER activity descriptor(G_(O*)-G_(HO*))displays that 16 metal dopants enable to enhance OER activities over a thermodynamically stable ZrO_(2)surface,among which Fe and Rh(in the form of single-atom dopant)reach the volcano peak(i.e.the optimal activity of OER under the potential of interest),indicating excellent OER performance.Free energy diagram calculations,density of states,and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations further showed that Fe and Rh are the effective dopants for ZrO_(2),leading to low OER overpotential,high conductivity,and good stability.Considering cost-effectiveness,single-atom Fe doped ZrO_(2)emerged as the most promising catalyst for OER.This finding offers a valuable perspective and reference for experimental researchers to design cost-effective catalysts for the industrial-scale OER production.
基金supported in part by the Talent Scientific Start-Up Project of Chinathe National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12175134)the World Premier International Research Center Initiative(WPI Initiative),MEXT,Japan。
文摘Very high energy(VHE)photons may have a higher survival rate than that expected in standard-model physics,as suggested by the recently reported gamma ray burst GRB221009A.While a photon-axion like particle(ALP)oscillation can boost the survival rate of the VHE photons,current works have not been based on concrete particle models,leaving the identity of the corresponding ALP unclear.Here,we show that the required ALP scenario is consistent with the electroweak axion with an anomaly free Z_(10)Froggatt–Nielsen symmetry.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.11988101 and 11890694the National Key R&D Program of China No.2019YFA0405502+1 种基金supported by the World Premier International Research Center Initiative(WPI),MEXT,Japanthe Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS)KAKENHI grants JP17K05382,JP20K04024 and JP21H04499。
文摘Motivated by the determination of black hole masses with gravitational-wave observations,we calculate the evolution of massive stars through presupernova stages and obtain the mass distribution of black holes.In the first part,we calculate the evolution of He stars with masses of 30-120 M_(⊙).We study in detail how convective carbon shell burning controls pair-instability pulsations before and during oxygen burning and determine their final fates.In the second part,we calculate the evolution of H-rich stars with initial masses of 13-80 M_(⊙) until Fe core collapse and obtain the possible black hole mass range by applying the criterion of the compactness parameters.From these models,we predict the mass distribution of black holes for stars that undergo Fe core collapse and pair-instability pulsation.The predicted masses for black holes range from 4.2 to 46 M_(⊙),which are consistent with the gravitational-wave observations.
基金the support from the science research grants from the China Manned Space Project with NO.CMS-CSST-2021-B01supported by the World Premier International Research Center Initiative(WPI),MEXT,Japan+12 种基金the Ontario Research Fund:Research Excellence Program(ORF-RE)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(NSERC)[funding reference number RGPIN-2019-067,CRD 523638-201,555585-20]Canadian Institute for Advanced Research(CIFAR)Canadian Foundation for Innovation(CFI)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,Grant No.11929301)Simons FoundationThoth Technology IncAlexander von Humboldt Foundationthe Niagara supercomputers at the SciNet HPC Consortiumthe Canada Foundation for Innovationthe Government of OntarioOntario Research Fund—Research Excellencethe University of Toronto。
文摘We examine the possibility of applying the baryonic acoustic oscillation reconstruction method to improve the neutrino massΣm_νconstraint.Thanks to the Gaussianization of the process,we demonstrate that the reconstruction algorithm could improve the measurement accuracy by roughly a factor of two.On the other hand,the reconstruction process itself becomes a source of systematic error.While the algorithm is supposed to produce the displacement field from a density distribution,various approximations cause the reconstructed output to deviate on intermediate scales.Nevertheless,it is still possible to benefit from this Gaussianized field,given that we can carefully calibrate the“transfer function”between the reconstruction output and theoretical displacement divergence from simulations.The limitation of this approach is then set by the numerical stability of this transfer function.With an ensemble of simulations,we show that such systematic error could become comparable to statistical uncertainties for a DESI-like survey and be safely neglected for other less ambitious surveys.
