Solvent Effects on Spectral Property and Dipole Moment of the Lowest Excited State of Coumarin 343 Dye

Steady-state absorption and fluorescence spectra, and time-resolved fluorescence spectra of coumarin 343 （C343） were measured in different solvents. The effect of the solvent on the spectral properties and dipole moment of the lowest excited state of C343 were investigated. It was found that the absorption and fluorescence spectra red-shifted slightly and strongly with increasing solvent polarity, respectively, because the charge distribution of the excited state leaded to the increasing difference between the absorption and fluorescence spectra with increasing solvent polarity. The dipole moment of the lowest excited state of C343 was determined from solvatochromic measurements and the quantum chemical calculation, and the results obtained from these two methods were fully consistent. Investigations of the time-resolved fluorescence of C343 in different solvents indicated that the fluorescence lifetimes increased nearly linearly with 4.45 ns in water. This can be ascribed between C343 and hydrogen donating increasing solvent polarity from 3.09 ns in toluene to to the intermolecular hydrogen bonding interactions solvents

Stochastic Resonance in a Single-Mode Laser Driven by Quadratic Colored Pump Noise:Effects of Biased Amplitude Modulation Signal

A single-mode laser noise model driven by quadratic colored pump noise and biased amplitude modulationsignal is proposed.The analytic expression of signal-to-noise ratio is calculated by using a new linearized procedure.Itis found that there are three different typies of stochastic resonance in the model:the conventional form of stochasticresonance,the stochastic resonance in the broad sense,and the bona fide SR.

Scheme for Robust Storage of Multi-particle Entanglement with a Cavity QED System

We propose a scheme for robustly storing multi-atom entangled states involving Bell states, three-particle W-state, n-particle W-like-states, generalized multi-particle W-states, n-particle GHZ-states, and partially entangled states in cavity QED. Our scheme can preserve the internal structure of the entangled states above, with only generation of a global phase corresponding to each of entangled states during the storage of them. One single-mode cavity and n identical two-level atoms are required. Our scheme may be realized in the present technology. The idea may be also utilized to store multi-trapped-ion entangled states in linear ion trap.

Density Functional Theoretical Analysis of the Molecular Structural Effects on Raman Spectra of β-Carotene and Lycopene

The molecular structural and Raman spectroscopic characteristics of fl-carotene and lycopene are investigated by density functional calculations. The effects of molecular structure and solvent environment on the Raman spectra are analyzed by comparing the calculated and measured results. It is found that the B3LYP/6-31G（d） method can predict the reasonable result for β-carotene, but the vl Raman activities of lycopene overflow at all the used theo- retical methods because of the longer conjugation length in β-carotene impedes the delocalization of ~r-electrons The calculated results indicate that the rotation of β-rings shortens the effective conjugation length, and results in higher frequency and lower activity of the vl mode in /q-carotene than lycopene. The measured vl bands of β-carotene and lycopene shift respectively to higher and lower frequencies in solution compared with that in crystals since the crystal packing forces can lead to different conformational variations in the carotenoids molecules. The polarized continuum model theoretical analysis suggests that solvent has slight （significant） effects on the Raman frequencies （intensities） of both carotenoids.

Material properties dependent on the thermal transport in a cylindrical nanowire

Using the elastic wave continuum model, we investigate the effect of material properties on ballistic thermal transport in a cylindrical nanowire. A comparative analysis for the convexity-shaped and concavity-shaped structure is made. It is found that in the convexity-shaped structure, the material with higher wave velocity in the convexity region can increase the thermal conductance at the lower temperature range; the thermal conductance of the nanowire with higher wave velocity in the convexity region is lower than that of the nanowire with lower wave velocity in the convexity region at the higher temperature range. However, in the concavity-shaped structure, the material properties of the concavity region have less effect on the thermal conductance at the lower temperature range; the material with higher wave velocity in the concavity region can reduce the thermal conductance at the higher temperature range. A brief analysis of these results is given.

Study on the zero-state quantum responses for inductance coupled mesoscopic LC circuits

The exact solution of time-evolution operator is obtained by applying the gauge transformation of algebra dynamics.Such an operator describes the time-evolution of the quantum state for two inductance coupled mesoscopic LC circuits.The zero-state responses of the charge and current to the input voltage signal are calculated.The results show that the system of inductance coupled mesoscopic LC circuits is linear and time-invariant.The zero-state responses of the charge and current are consistent with those of the corresponding macroscopic circuit.