Soft condensed-state physics is a disciplinary frontier of 20th-century physics. An interdiscipline in nature, it involves biology, chemistry and even pure mathematics. Taking the liquid crystal (LC) biomembrane as an...Soft condensed-state physics is a disciplinary frontier of 20th-century physics. An interdiscipline in nature, it involves biology, chemistry and even pure mathematics. Taking the liquid crystal (LC) biomembrane as an example, this article expounds the current development trend of this new and promising branch of contemporary physics.展开更多
In this article,we apply classical density functional theory to investigate the characteristics of depletion interaction in Lennard-Jones(LJ)binary fiuid mixtures.First,to confirm the validity of our adopted density f...In this article,we apply classical density functional theory to investigate the characteristics of depletion interaction in Lennard-Jones(LJ)binary fiuid mixtures.First,to confirm the validity of our adopted density functional formalism,we calculate the radial distribution functions using a theoretical approach and compare them with results obtained by molecular dynamics simulation.Then,this approach is applied to two colloids immersed in LJ solvent systems.We investigate the variation of depletion interaction with respect to the distance of two colloids in LJ binary systems.We find that depletion interaction may be attractive or repulsive,mostly depending on the bulk density of the solvent and the temperature of the binary system.For high bulk densities,the repulsive barrier of depletion force is remarkable when the total excluded volume of colloids touches each other and reaches a maximum.The height of the repulsive barrier is related to the parameters of the LJ potential and bulk density.Moreover,the depletion force may exhibit attractive wells if the bulk density of the solvent is low.The attractive well tends to appear when the surface-surface distance of colloids is half of the size of the polymer and deepens with temperature lowering in a fixed bulk density.In contrast with the hard-sphere system,no oscillation of depletion potential around zero is observed.展开更多
The ＇abnormally＇ high electrical conductivity ofpure water was recently studied by us using our protonic bond, trap and energy band model, with five host particles： the positive and negative protons, and the amphot...The ＇abnormally＇ high electrical conductivity ofpure water was recently studied by us using our protonic bond, trap and energy band model, with five host particles： the positive and negative protons, and the amphoteric protonic trap in three charge states, positive, neutral and negative. Our second report described the electrical charge storage capacitance of pure and impure water. This third report presents the theory of particle density and electrical conductance of pure and impure water, including the impuritons, which consist of an impurity ion bonded to a proton, proton-hole or proton trap and which significantly affect impure waters＇ properties.展开更多
An overview of research status of soft physics in high energy heavy-ion collision experiments and recent experimental results are presented. The experimental status on fluctuations and correlations has been reviewed a...An overview of research status of soft physics in high energy heavy-ion collision experiments and recent experimental results are presented. The experimental status on fluctuations and correlations has been reviewed and the outlook for research status of soft physics in LHC/ALICE has been introduced in this paper.展开更多
An overview of research status of soft physics in high energy heavy-ion collision experiments and recent experimental results are presented. This paper includes four parts： 1） Theoretical predictions of quarkgluon p...An overview of research status of soft physics in high energy heavy-ion collision experiments and recent experimental results are presented. This paper includes four parts： 1） Theoretical predictions of quarkgluon plasma and introduction for high energy heavy ion collision experiments. 2） Experimental status on collision geometry. 3） Experimental status on particle production. 4） Conclusion and outlook for research status of soft physics in LHC/ALICE.展开更多
Liquid foam is a dense random packing of gas or liquid bubbles in a small amount of immiscible liquid containing surfactants. The liquid within the Plateau borders, although small in volume, causes considerable diffic...Liquid foam is a dense random packing of gas or liquid bubbles in a small amount of immiscible liquid containing surfactants. The liquid within the Plateau borders, although small in volume, causes considerable difficulties to the investigation of the spatial structure and physical properties of foams, and the situation becomes even more com-plicated as the fluid flows. To solve these problems, a discrete model of two-dimensional liquid foams on the bubble scale is proposed in this work. The bubble surface is represented with finite number of nodes, and the liquid within Plateau borders is discretized into lattice particles. The gas in bubbles is treated as ideal gas at constant temperatures. This model is tested by choosing an arbitrary shape bubble as the initial condition. This then automatically evolves into a cir-cular shape, which indicates that the surface energy minimum routine is obeyed without calling external controlling con-ditions. Without inserting liquid particle among the bubble channels, periodic ordered and disordered dry foams are both simulated, and the fine foam structures are developed. Wet foams are also simulated by inserting fluid among bubble channels. The calculated coordination number, as a function of liquid fractions, agrees well with the standard values.展开更多
We report physics based confirmation（~1% RMS deviation）, by existing experimental data, of protonprohol（proton-hole） ion product（p H） and mobilities in pure liquid water（0-100℃, 1-atm pressure） anticipated fr...We report physics based confirmation（~1% RMS deviation）, by existing experimental data, of protonprohol（proton-hole） ion product（p H） and mobilities in pure liquid water（0-100℃, 1-atm pressure） anticipated from our melted-ice Hexagonal-Close-Packed（H_2O）_4Lattice Model. Five phonons are identified.（1） A propagating protonic phonon（520.9 meV from lone-pair-blue-shifted stretching mode of isolated water molecule） absorbed to generate a proton-prohol pair or detrap a tightly-bound proton.（2） Two（173.4 and 196.6 meV） bending-breathing protonic-proholic or protonic phonons absorbed during de-trapping-limited proton or proton-prohol mobilities.（3）Two propagating oxygenic-wateric Debye-Dispersive phonons（30.3 and 27.5 meV） absorbed during scatteringlimited proton or proton-prohol mobilities.展开更多
文摘Soft condensed-state physics is a disciplinary frontier of 20th-century physics. An interdiscipline in nature, it involves biology, chemistry and even pure mathematics. Taking the liquid crystal (LC) biomembrane as an example, this article expounds the current development trend of this new and promising branch of contemporary physics.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11504384)the Fund of State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems(No.MPCS-2017-A-04)。
文摘In this article,we apply classical density functional theory to investigate the characteristics of depletion interaction in Lennard-Jones(LJ)binary fiuid mixtures.First,to confirm the validity of our adopted density functional formalism,we calculate the radial distribution functions using a theoretical approach and compare them with results obtained by molecular dynamics simulation.Then,this approach is applied to two colloids immersed in LJ solvent systems.We investigate the variation of depletion interaction with respect to the distance of two colloids in LJ binary systems.We find that depletion interaction may be attractive or repulsive,mostly depending on the bulk density of the solvent and the temperature of the binary system.For high bulk densities,the repulsive barrier of depletion force is remarkable when the total excluded volume of colloids touches each other and reaches a maximum.The height of the repulsive barrier is related to the parameters of the LJ potential and bulk density.Moreover,the depletion force may exhibit attractive wells if the bulk density of the solvent is low.The attractive well tends to appear when the surface-surface distance of colloids is half of the size of the polymer and deepens with temperature lowering in a fixed bulk density.In contrast with the hard-sphere system,no oscillation of depletion potential around zero is observed.
文摘The ＇abnormally＇ high electrical conductivity ofpure water was recently studied by us using our protonic bond, trap and energy band model, with five host particles： the positive and negative protons, and the amphoteric protonic trap in three charge states, positive, neutral and negative. Our second report described the electrical charge storage capacitance of pure and impure water. This third report presents the theory of particle density and electrical conductance of pure and impure water, including the impuritons, which consist of an impurity ion bonded to a proton, proton-hole or proton trap and which significantly affect impure waters＇ properties.
基金Ministry of Education of China(306022)National Natural Science Foundation of China(10635020,10705012)
文摘An overview of research status of soft physics in high energy heavy-ion collision experiments and recent experimental results are presented. The experimental status on fluctuations and correlations has been reviewed and the outlook for research status of soft physics in LHC/ALICE has been introduced in this paper.
基金Ministry of Education of China(306022)National Natural Science Foundation of China(10635020)
文摘An overview of research status of soft physics in high energy heavy-ion collision experiments and recent experimental results are presented. This paper includes four parts： 1） Theoretical predictions of quarkgluon plasma and introduction for high energy heavy ion collision experiments. 2） Experimental status on collision geometry. 3） Experimental status on particle production. 4） Conclusion and outlook for research status of soft physics in LHC/ALICE.
文摘Liquid foam is a dense random packing of gas or liquid bubbles in a small amount of immiscible liquid containing surfactants. The liquid within the Plateau borders, although small in volume, causes considerable difficulties to the investigation of the spatial structure and physical properties of foams, and the situation becomes even more com-plicated as the fluid flows. To solve these problems, a discrete model of two-dimensional liquid foams on the bubble scale is proposed in this work. The bubble surface is represented with finite number of nodes, and the liquid within Plateau borders is discretized into lattice particles. The gas in bubbles is treated as ideal gas at constant temperatures. This model is tested by choosing an arbitrary shape bubble as the initial condition. This then automatically evolves into a cir-cular shape, which indicates that the surface energy minimum routine is obeyed without calling external controlling con-ditions. Without inserting liquid particle among the bubble channels, periodic ordered and disordered dry foams are both simulated, and the fine foam structures are developed. Wet foams are also simulated by inserting fluid among bubble channels. The calculated coordination number, as a function of liquid fractions, agrees well with the standard values.
文摘We report physics based confirmation（~1% RMS deviation）, by existing experimental data, of protonprohol（proton-hole） ion product（p H） and mobilities in pure liquid water（0-100℃, 1-atm pressure） anticipated from our melted-ice Hexagonal-Close-Packed（H_2O）_4Lattice Model. Five phonons are identified.（1） A propagating protonic phonon（520.9 meV from lone-pair-blue-shifted stretching mode of isolated water molecule） absorbed to generate a proton-prohol pair or detrap a tightly-bound proton.（2） Two（173.4 and 196.6 meV） bending-breathing protonic-proholic or protonic phonons absorbed during de-trapping-limited proton or proton-prohol mobilities.（3）Two propagating oxygenic-wateric Debye-Dispersive phonons（30.3 and 27.5 meV） absorbed during scatteringlimited proton or proton-prohol mobilities.
