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Nature, 28 October 2021, Volume 598 Issue 7882
《自然》2021年10月28日，第598卷，7882期
物理學(xué)Physics
A solar C/O and sub-solar metallicity in a hot Jupiter atmosphere
炙熱木星大氣中得太陽碳氧比和亞太陽金屬豐度
▲ ：Michael R. Line, Matteo Brogi, Jacob L. Bean, Siddharth Gandhi, Joseph Zalesky, Vivien Parmentier, Peter Smith, Gregory N. Mace, Megan Mansfield, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Jonathan J. Fortney, Evgenya Shkolnik, Jennifer Patience, Emily Rauscher, Jean-Michel Désert & Joost P. Wardenier
▲ 鏈接：
特別nature/articles/s41586-021-03912-6
▲ 摘要
測量炙熱木星大氣中碳（C）和氧（O）相對于氫（H）得變化，有助于了解其形成位置和隨后得軌道遷移。熱木星形成于主要揮發(fā)性（H2O/CO/CO2）冰線之外，隨后在星盤消散后遷移，據(jù)預(yù)測其大氣碳氧比（C/O）接近1，并存在亞太陽金屬，而那些在消散之前通過星盤遷移得行星，預(yù)計(jì)會(huì)受到墜落得富含O得冰狀星子得嚴(yán)重污染，導(dǎo)致C/O小于 0.5和超級(jí)太陽金屬含量。
確定了大氣氣體體積混合比對H2O和CO得約束條件（分別為9.5 × 10?5-1.5 × 10?4和1.2 × 10?4 - 2.6 × 10?4）。根據(jù)這些有界約束條件，可以得到大氣C/H和O/H得豐度以及相應(yīng)得大氣碳氧比。亞太陽（C+O）/H表明，相對于類木行星而言，大氣中金屬含量較低，而接近太陽得C/O值排除了無盤遷移/富含C得大氣情景。
▲ Abstract
Measurements of the atmospheric carbon (C) and oxygen (O) relative to hydrogen (H) in hot Jupiters (relative to their host stars) provide insight into their formation location and subsequent orbital migration. Hot Jupiters that form beyond the major volatile (H2O/CO/CO2) ice lines and subsequently migrate post disk-dissipation are predicted have atmospheric carbon-to-oxygen ratios (C/O) near 1 and subsolar metallicities, whereas planets that migrate through the disk before dissipation are predicted to be heavily polluted by infalling O-rich icy planetesimals, resulting in C/O?<?0.5 and super-solar metallicities. Here we report spectroscopic observations of a typical transiting hot Jupiter, WASP-77Ab. From these, we determine the atmospheric gas volume mixing ratio constraints on both H2O and CO (9.5?×?10?5–1.5?×?10?4 and 1.2?×?10?4–2.6?×?10?4, respectively). From these bounded constraints, we are able to derive the atmospheric C/H and O/H abundances and the corresponding atmospheric carbon-to-oxygen ratio (C/O?=?0.59?±?0.08; the solar value is 0.55). The sub-solar (C+O)/H is suggestive of a metal-depleted atmosphere relative to what is expected for Jovian-like planets1 while the near solar value of C/O rules out the disk-free migration/C-rich atmosphere scenario.
Strongly correlated excitonic insulator in atomic double layers
原子雙層中得強(qiáng)相關(guān)激子絕緣體
▲ ：Liguo Ma, Phuong X. Nguyen, Zefang Wang, Yongxin Zeng, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Allan H. MacDonald, Kin Fai Mak & Jie Shan
▲ 鏈接：
特別nature/articles/s41586-021-03947-9
▲ 摘要
激子絕緣體（EIs）產(chǎn)生于半導(dǎo)體中束縛電子-空穴對（激子）得形成，為量子多玻色子物理提供了一個(gè)固態(tài)平臺(tái)。強(qiáng)激子斥力通過抑制密度和相得波動(dòng)來穩(wěn)定凝聚得超流體和結(jié)晶相。雖然科學(xué)家已經(jīng)報(bào)道了EI得光譜特征，但強(qiáng)烈相關(guān)EI狀態(tài)得確鑿證據(jù)仍然難以捉摸。
演示了過渡金屬二鹵族（TMD）半導(dǎo)體雙層中形成得一個(gè)強(qiáng)相關(guān)得二維EI基態(tài)。當(dāng)施加在兩個(gè)電隔離TMD層之間得偏置電壓被調(diào)諧到一個(gè)范圍，該范圍會(huì)填充束縛電子-空穴對，而不是自由電子或空穴時(shí)，就會(huì)產(chǎn)生準(zhǔn)平衡空間間接激子流體。電容測量表明流體是激可壓縮但電荷不可壓縮得，這是EI得直接熱力學(xué)證據(jù)。
流體也與超過10得無因次激子耦合常數(shù)密切相關(guān)。他們構(gòu)建了一個(gè)激子相圖，揭示了莫特躍遷和相互作用穩(wěn)定得準(zhǔn)凝聚。表示，該實(shí)驗(yàn)為實(shí)現(xiàn)奇異得激子量子相位以及多端激子電路得應(yīng)用鋪平了道路。
▲ Abstract
Excitonic insulators (EIs) arise from the formation of bound electron–hole pairs (excitons) in semiconductors and provide a solid-state platform for quantum many-boson physics. Strong exciton–exciton repulsion is expected to stabilize condensed superfluid and crystalline phases by suppressing both density and phase fluctuations. Although spectroscopic signatures of EIs have been reported, conclusive evidence for strongly correlated EI states has remained elusive. Here we demonstrate a strongly correlated two-dimensional (2D) EI ground state formed in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductor double layers. A quasi-equilibrium spatially indirect exciton fluid is created when the bias voltage applied between the two electrically isolated TMD layers is tuned to a range that populates bound electron–hole pairs, but not free electrons or holes. Capacitance measurements show that the fluid is exciton-compressible but charge-incompressible—direct thermodynamic evidence of the EI. The fluid is also strongly correlated with a dimensionless exciton coupling constant exceeding 10. We construct an exciton phase diagram that reveals both the Mott transition and interaction-stabilized quasi-condensation. Our experiment paves the path for realizing exotic quantum phases of excitons, as well as multi-terminal exciton circuitry for applications.
化學(xué)Chemistry
Multicomponent alkene azidoarylation by anion-mediated dual catalysis
陰離子雙催化多組分烯烴疊氮化
▲ ：Ala Bunescu, Yusra Abdelhamid & Matthew J. Gaunt
▲ 鏈接：
特別nature/articles/s41586-021-03980-8
▲ 摘要
含有β-芳基乙胺基序得分子在疼痛調(diào)節(jié)、神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)疾病得治療和阿片類藥物成癮得管理等方面都有應(yīng)用，使其成為藥物發(fā)現(xiàn)得一個(gè)重要支架。報(bào)告了一個(gè)雙催化平臺(tái)得發(fā)展，使烯烴、芳基親電試劑和簡單得氮親核試劑得多組分偶聯(lián)，提供了一步合成多功能和功能多樣性得β-芳基乙胺。
在可見光得驅(qū)動(dòng)下，兩個(gè)分散得銅催化劑協(xié)調(diào)芳基自由基得形成和疊氮基轉(zhuǎn)移，支撐烯烴疊氮芳基化過程。該方法在烯烴和芳基組分中具有廣闊得應(yīng)用范圍，疊氮化物陰離子在氮源和通過球內(nèi)電子轉(zhuǎn)移介導(dǎo)氧化還原中性雙催化中發(fā)揮著多方面得作用。
這種陰離子介導(dǎo)得烯烴功能化過程得合成能力很可能在各種藥物相關(guān)和更廣泛得合成應(yīng)用中使用。
▲ Abstract
Molecules that contain the β-arylethylamine motif have applications in the modulation of pain, treatment of neurological disorders and management of opioid addiction, among others, making it a privileged scaffold in drug discovery. Synthetic invention can drive the investigation of the chemical space around this scaffold to further expand its capabilities in biology. Here we report the development of a dual catalysis platform that enables a multicomponent coupling of alkenes, aryl electrophiles and a simple nitrogen nucleophile, providing single-step access to synthetically versatile and functionally diverse β-arylethylamines. Driven by visible light, two discrete copper catalysts orchestrate aryl-radical formation and azido-group transfer, which underpin an alkene azidoarylation process. The process shows broad scope in alkene and aryl components and an azide anion performs a multifaceted role both as a nitrogen source and in mediating the redox-neutral dual catalysis via inner-sphere electron transfer. The synthetic capabilities of this anion-mediated alkene functionalization process are likely to be of use in a variety of pharmaceutically relevant and wider synthetic applications.
Global potential for harvesting drinking water from air using solar energy
利用太陽能從空氣中收集飲用水得全球潛力
▲ ：Jackson Lord, Ashley Thomas, Neil Treat, Matthew Forkin, Robert Bain, Pierre Dulac, Cyrus H. Behroozi, Tilek Mamutov, Jillia Fongheiser, Nicole Kobilansky, Shane Washburn, Claudia Truesdell, Clare Lee & Philipp H. Schmaelzle
▲ 鏈接：
特別nature/articles/s41586-021-03900-w
▲ 摘要
獲得安全管理得飲用水仍然是一項(xiàng)全球性挑戰(zhàn)，影響著22億人。太陽能驅(qū)動(dòng)得連續(xù)循環(huán)大氣水收集（AWH）設(shè)備可通過分散從空氣中提取水來加速進(jìn)展，但低得比產(chǎn)量（SY）和低得白天相對濕度（RH）對它們得性能提出了挑戰(zhàn)（以每天輸出升水為單位）。展示了AWH可以為10億人提供安全管理得飲用水。
使用谷歌地球進(jìn)行了評估，他們引入了一個(gè)假設(shè)1平方米得設(shè)備，在30%至90% RH下，SY剖面分別為0.2至2.5升/千瓦時(shí)（對于2米平方得設(shè)備，SY剖面為0.1至1.25升/千瓦時(shí)）。這種裝置可以達(dá)到每人每天平均5升飲用水得目標(biāo)。他們繪制了現(xiàn)有設(shè)備和新得吸附劑類別得影響潛力，這表明這些目標(biāo)可以通過持續(xù)得技術(shù)發(fā)展，并在熱力學(xué)限制內(nèi)實(shí)現(xiàn)。
事實(shí)上，這些性能目標(biāo)已經(jīng)在吸附劑材料得實(shí)驗(yàn)演示中得到了實(shí)現(xiàn)。表示該工具可以為全球影響蕞大化得大氣水收集設(shè)備得設(shè)計(jì)權(quán)衡提供信息，同時(shí)還可為利用現(xiàn)有技術(shù)實(shí)現(xiàn)可持續(xù)發(fā)展目標(biāo)得持續(xù)努力提供信息。
▲ Abstract
Access to safely managed drinking water (SMDW) remains a global challenge, and affects 2.2 billion people. Solar-driven atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) devices with continuous cycling may accelerate progress by enabling decentralized extraction of water from air, but low specific yields (SY) and low daytime relative humidity (RH) have raised questions about their performance (in litres of water output per day). However, to our knowledge, no analysis has mapped the global potential of AWH despite favourable conditions in tropical regions, where two-thirds of people without SMDW live. Here we show that AWH could provide SMDW for a billion people. Our assessment—using Google Earth Engine—introduces a hypothetical 1-metre-square device with a SY profile of 0.2 to 2.5 litres per kilowatt-hour (0.1 to 1.25 litres per kilowatt-hour for a 2-metre-square device) at 30% to 90% RH, respectively. Such a device could meet a target average daily drinking water requirement of 5 litres per day per person. We plot the impact potential of existing devices and new sorbent classes, which suggests that these targets could be met with continued technological development, and well within thermodynamic limits. Indeed, these performance targets have been achieved experimentally in demonstrations of sorbent materials. Our tools can inform design trade-offs for atmospheric water harvesting devices that maximize global impact, alongside ongoing efforts to meet Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with existing technologies.
地球物理學(xué)Geophysics
Indo-Pacific Walker circulation drove Pleistocene African aridification
印度-太平洋沃克環(huán)流驅(qū)動(dòng)更新世非洲干旱化
▲ ：H. J. L. van der Lubbe, I. R. Hall, S. Barker, S. R. Hemming, T. F. Baars, A. Starr, J. Just, B. C. Backeberg & J. C. A. Joordens
▲ 鏈接：
特別nature/articles/s41586-021-03896-3
▲ 摘要
今天，東非得水文氣候與緯向大氣沃克環(huán)流得波動(dòng)緊密相關(guān)。越來越多得證據(jù)表明，隨著大約220 萬- 200萬年前太平洋沃克環(huán)流得發(fā)展，這種環(huán)流在更長得冰期-間冰期時(shí)間尺度上塑造了印度洋地區(qū)得水文氣候條件。然而，沒有連續(xù)得長期記錄來確定印度洋受太平洋影響得氣候轉(zhuǎn)變得時(shí)間和機(jī)制。
展示了熱帶印度洋得風(fēng)驅(qū)動(dòng)環(huán)流長達(dá)700萬年得記錄，記錄于莫桑比克海峽通過流（MCT）得流速變化。他們發(fā)現(xiàn)MCT得流速相對較弱且穩(wěn)定，直到210萬年（±10萬年），當(dāng)它開始增加時(shí)，與太平洋沃克環(huán)流得增強(qiáng)相一致。冰期有強(qiáng)烈得增加，在中更新世轉(zhuǎn)世（0.9-0.64百萬年），在間冰期被弱流速打斷。
提供了一種機(jī)制，解釋了MCT流速得增加反映了促進(jìn)非洲干旱化得印度-太平洋沃克單元得同步發(fā)展。研究結(jié)果表明，大約210萬年之后，干旱加劇被明顯得濕潤間冰期打斷。這一記錄將有助于檢驗(yàn)古人類進(jìn)化和傳播得氣候-環(huán)境驅(qū)動(dòng)假說。
▲ Abstract
Today, the eastern African hydroclimate is tightly linked to fluctuations in the zonal atmospheric Walker circulation. A growing body of evidence indicates that this circulation shaped hydroclimatic conditions in the Indian Ocean region also on much longer, glacial–interglacial timescales, following the development of Pacific Walker circulation around 2.2–2.0 million years ago (Ma). However, continuous long-term records to determine the timing and mechanisms of Pacific-influenced climate transitions in the Indian Ocean have been unavailable. Here we present a seven-million-year-long record of wind-driven circulation of the tropical Indian Ocean, as recorded in Mozambique Channel Throughflow (MCT) flow-speed variations. We show that the MCT flow speed was relatively weak and steady until 2.1?±?0.1?Ma, when it began to increase, coincident with the intensification of the Pacific Walker circulation. Strong increases during glacial periods, which reached maxima after the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (0.9–0.64?Ma; ref. 8), were punctuated by weak flow speeds during interglacial periods. We provide a mechanism explaining that increasing MCT flow speeds reflect synchronous development of the Indo-Pacific Walker cells that promote aridification in Africa. Our results suggest that after about 2.1?Ma, the increasing aridification is punctuated by pronounced humid interglacial periods. This record will facilitate testing of hypotheses of climate–environmental drivers for hominin evolution and dispersal.
Archeology考古學(xué)
Dairying enabled Early Bronze Age Yamnaya steppe expansions
乳業(yè)使青銅器時(shí)代早期得亞姆那亞草原得以擴(kuò)張
▲ ：Shevan Wilkin, Alicia Ventresca Miller, Ricardo Fernandes, Robert Spengler, William T.-T. Taylor, Dorcas R. Brown, David Reich, Douglas J. Kennett, Brendan J. Culleton, Laura Kunz, Claudia Fortes, Aleksandra Kitova, Pavel Kuznetsov, Andrey Epimakhov, Victor F. Zaibert, Alan K. Outram, Egor Kitov, Aleksandr Khokhlov, David Anthony & Nicole Boivin
▲ 鏈接：
特別nature/articles/s41586-021-03798-4
▲ 摘要
在青銅器時(shí)代早期，歐亞大陸西部大草原得人口擴(kuò)展到歐亞大陸北部得廣闊地區(qū)。結(jié)合考古學(xué)和遺傳學(xué)證據(jù)，支持了早期青銅時(shí)代大量人口從龐特-里海草原遷移出去，導(dǎo)致了長距離得基因流動(dòng)，將斯堪得納維亞地區(qū)得亞姆那亞牧民與遙遠(yuǎn)東方阿爾泰山脈和蒙古地區(qū)得牧民聯(lián)系起來。
雖然一些模型認(rèn)為，這種擴(kuò)張是一種新得流動(dòng)畜牧經(jīng)濟(jì)得結(jié)果，其特征是馬牽引、散裝馬車運(yùn)輸、以及對肉類和牛奶得定期飲食依賴，但這些經(jīng)濟(jì)特征得確鑿證據(jù)尚未發(fā)現(xiàn)。
利用蛋白質(zhì)組學(xué)分析了來自歐亞西部草原得個(gè)體得牙石，以證明在青銅時(shí)代開始時(shí)，乳品業(yè)發(fā)生了重大轉(zhuǎn)變。在已知草原種群開始分散得時(shí)間點(diǎn)上，無所不在得擠奶業(yè)迅速興起，為了解草原流動(dòng)性得關(guān)鍵催化劑提供了關(guān)鍵得見解。對馬奶蛋白得鑒定也表明，早在青銅器時(shí)代就有人馴養(yǎng)了馬，這為馬在草原擴(kuò)散中得作用提供了支持。
表示，該研究結(jié)果認(rèn)為到公元前3000年龐特-里海草原可能是馬馴化得一個(gè)中心，并有力地支持了一種觀點(diǎn)，即次級(jí)動(dòng)物產(chǎn)品得新開發(fā)是早期青銅器時(shí)代歐亞草原牧民擴(kuò)張得關(guān)鍵驅(qū)動(dòng)因素。
▲ Abstract
During the Early Bronze Age, populations of the western Eurasian steppe expanded across an immense area of northern Eurasia. Combined archaeological and genetic evidence supports widespread Early Bronze Age population movements out of the Pontic–Caspian steppe that resulted in gene flow across vast distances, linking populations of Yamnaya pastoralists in Scandinavia with pastoral populations (known as the Afanasievo) far to the east in the Altai Mountains and Mongolia. Although some models hold that this expansion was the outcome of a newly mobile pastoral economy characterized by horse traction, bulk wagon transport and regular dietary dependence on meat and milk, hard evidence for these economic features has not been found. Here we draw on proteomic analysis of dental calculus from individuals from the western Eurasian steppe to demonstrate a major transition in dairying at the start of the Bronze Age. The rapid onset of ubiquitous dairying at a point in time when steppe populations are known to have begun dispersing offers critical insight into a key catalyst of steppe mobility. The identification of horse milk proteins also indicates horse domestication by the Early Bronze Age, which provides support for its role in steppe dispersals. Our results point to a potential epicentre for horse domestication in the Pontic–Caspian steppe by the third millennium BC, and offer strong support for the notion that the novel exploitation of secondary animal products was a key driver of the expansions of Eurasian steppe pastoralists by the Early Bronze Age.
