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    Confronting pentaquark photoproduction with new LHCb observations

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    The newly measurement of production fractions of PcP_c states by LHCb collaboration have put restriction on their branching ratios of J/ψpJ/\psi p decay, thus constraining their photoproduction in γpJ/ψp\gamma p\to J/\psi p reaction. We show the tension between LHCb results and the current experiments in search of PcP_c photoproduction. We also find that the present information of branching ratios of PcJ/ψpP_c\to J/\psi p has already confronted sharply with the models which study the nature of PcP_c

    Implementation of quantum algorithms with resonant interactions

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    We propose a scheme for implementing quantum algorithms with resonant interactions. Our scheme only requires resonant interactions between two atoms and a cavity mode, which is simple and feasible. Moreover, the implementation would be an important step towards the fabrication of quantum computers in cavity QED system.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure

    New approach for fabrication germanene with Dirac electrons preserved: A first principle study

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    How to obtain germanene with Dirac electrons preserved is still an open challenge. Here we report a sandwich-dehydrogenation approach, i.e., to fabricate germanene through dehydrogenating germanane in a sandwiched structure. The dehydrogenation can spontaneously occur for the sandwiched structure, which overcomes the problem of amorphization in the heating dehydrogenation approach. The obtained germanene preserve the Dirac electronic properties very well. Moreover, the Fermi velocity of germanene can be efficiently manipulated through controlling the interlayer spacing between germanane and the sandwiching surfaces. Our results indicate a guideline for fabrication of prefect two-dimensional materials.Comment: 23 pages,6 figure

    Ricci flow on compact K\"ahler manifolds of positive bisectional curvature

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    We announce a new proof of the uniform estimate on the curvature of solutions to the Ricci flow on a compact K\"ahler manifold MnM^n with positive bisectional curvature. In contrast to the recent work of X. Chen and G. Tian, our proof of the uniform estimate does not rely on the exsitence of K\"ahler-Einstein metrics on MnM^n, but instead on the first author's Harnack inequality for the K\"ahler-Ricc flow, and a very recent local injectivity radius estimate of Perelman for the Ricci flow.Comment: 4 page

    Robust Dynamic Selection of Tested Modules in Software Testing for Maximizing Delivered Reliability

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    Software testing is aimed to improve the delivered reliability of the users. Delivered reliability is the reliability of using the software after it is delivered to the users. Usually the software consists of many modules. Thus, the delivered reliability is dependent on the operational profile which specifies how the users will use these modules as well as the defect number remaining in each module. Therefore, a good testing policy should take the operational profile into account and dynamically select tested modules according to the current state of the software during the testing process. This paper discusses how to dynamically select tested modules in order to maximize delivered reliability by formulating the selection problem as a dynamic programming problem. As the testing process is performed only once, risk must be considered during the testing process, which is described by the tester's utility function in this paper. Besides, since usually the tester has no accurate estimate of the operational profile, by employing robust optimization technique, we analysis the selection problem in the worst case, given the uncertainty set of operational profile. By numerical examples, we show the necessity of maximizing delivered reliability directly and using robust optimization technique when the tester has no clear idea of the operational profile. Moreover, it is shown that the risk averse behavior of the tester has a major influence on the delivered reliability.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figure
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