A new model of a quantum heat engine(QHE) cycle is established,in which the working substance consists of an interacting electrons system.One of our purposes is to test the validity of the second law of thermodynamics by this model,which is more general than the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model since it would recover the spin model when the on-site Coulomb interaction U is strong enough.On the basis of quantum mechanics and the first law of thermodynamics,we show no violation of the second law of thermodynamics during the cycle.We further study the performance characteristics of the cycle by investigating in detail the optimal relations of efficiency and dimensionless power output.We find that the efficiency of our engine can be expressed as η = 1 - t22/t12 in the large-U limit,which is valid even for a four sites QHE.
Scanning near-field acoustic microscope (SNAM) combines the ultrasonic detection technology with scanning near-field microscopy. The main characteristic of such microscope is that the acoustic wave is produced or detected in near-field area whether ultrasonic transducer acts as generator or detector. The resolution of SNAM can reach to nanometer scale. First,two typical SNAMs,scanning electron acoustic microscope and scanning probe acoustic microscope,will be introduced in this paper. The working principle of our homemade SNAM based on a commercial scanning probe microscope will be reported,together with some recent results from this homemade SNAM.
XU Ping,CAI Wei & WANG RongMing Key Laboratory of Micro-nano Measurement-Manipulation and Physics (Ministry of Education)
In the present paper,we study the effect of element substitution for quarter-filled nanoclusters of perovskite manganite by introducing Jahn-Teller type of perturbation interaction to the double-exchange Hamiltonian.Using the unrestricted real-space Hartree-Fock approximation method we find that,the Jahn-Teller electron-phonon interaction plays the central role in producing the phase transition from ferromagnetic phase to CE type antiferromagnetic phase.Not only the Jahn-Teller interaction benefits antiferromagnetic correlation,it also increases the charge density order parameter.These theoretical results provide a guidance to predict the properties and modify the composition of particles of perovskite manganite under nano-scale.
WANG HaiLongWANG RongMingWANG YuGangTIAN GuangShan
