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By using a variational method of Pekar type, we investigate the effects of the hydrogen-like impurity and magnetic field on the electron's probability density (PD) and oscillating frequency (OF) of a RbCl quantum pseudodot qubit. Numerical results indicate that (1) the PD oscillates periodically; (2) the crest of the PD will decrease with increasing the cyclotron frequencies and the Coulombic impurity potential strength; (3) as the cyclotron frequency of the magnetic field and the strength of the Coulombic impurity potential increases, PD's peaks will occur more frequently; (4) besides, Figs. 1b and 2b clearly show that in a single period the PD will decrease with increasing the cyclotron frequency and the Coulombic impurity potential strength when $$ t > 1.8\;\text{fs} $$ ; whereas the changing law is just the opposite when $$ t < 1.8\;\text{fs} $$ ; (5) the OF is an aggrandizing function of the strength of the Coulombic impurity potential, whereas it is a decaying one of the cyclotron frequencies of the magnetic field. The coherence of qubit is crucial to the investigations of quantum information and quantum computation, where the electron's PD, the OF and the coherence time are the physical quantities representing the properties of coherence. Our research results fine that by changing the cyclotron frequency of the magnetic field and the strength of the Coulombic impurity potential one can adjust the electron's PD and the OF. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the condition of strong electron-LO phonon coupling in an asymmetric quantum dot (QD), the first excited state energy (FESE), the excitation energy (EE), and the transition frequency (TF) between the first excited ground states (FEGS) of the polaron are calculated by using the linear combination operator and the unitary transformation methods. The variation of the FESE, the EE and the TF with the temperature, the transverse and longitudinal confinement strengths (TLCS) of the QD are studied in detail. We find that the FESE, the EE and the TF decreases (increases) with increasing temperature when the temperature is in lower (higher) temperature regime. They are increasing functions of the TLCS. We find three ways to tune the FESE, the EE and the TF via controlling the temperature and the TLCS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PJP) in non-HIV patients is still a challenge for intensivists. The aim of our study was to evaluate mortality predictors of PJP patients requiring Intensive care unit (ICU) admission.Methods: Retrospectively review medical records of patients with diagnosis of PJP admitted to four ICUs of two academic medical centers from October 2012 to October 2015.Results: Eighty-two patients were enrolled in the study. Overall hospital mortality was 75.6 %. Compared with survivors, the non-survivors had older age (55 ± 16 vs. 45 ± 17, p = 0.014), higher APACHE II score (20 ± 5 vs. 17 ± 5, p = 0.01), lower white blood cell count (7.68 ± 3.44 vs. 10.48 ± 4.62, p = 0.005), less fever (80.6%vs. 100 %, p = 0.033), more hypotension (58.1 % vs. 20 %, p = 0.003), more pneumomediastinum (29 % vs. 5 %, p = 0.027). Logistic regression analysis demonstrated that age [odds ratio (OR)1.051; 95 % CI 1.007-1.097; p = 0.022], white blood cell count [OR 0.802; 95 % CI 0.670-0.960; p = 0.016], and pneumomediastinum [OR 16.514; 95 % CI 1.330-205.027; p = 0.029] were independently associated with hospital mortality.Conclusions: Mortality rate for non-HIV PJP patients requiring ICU admission was still high. Poor prognostic factors included age, white blood cell count and pneumomediastinum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]