The masses of some orbitally and radially excited heavy-light mesons are calculated in Regge phenomenol- ogy. The results are in reasonable agreement with the experimental data and those given in many other theoretical approaches. Based on the calculation, we suggest that the recently observed D（2550）, D（2600） and D（2760） can be assigned as the charmed members of the 21S0, 23S1 and 13D1 multiplets, respectively. D＇1（2700） may be assigned as the charm-strange member of the 23S1 state. The results may be helpful in understanding the nature of current and future experimentally observed heavy-light mesons.
Up to now, the excited charmed and bottom baryon states have still not been well studied experimentally or theoretically. In this paper, we predict the mass of Ωb, the only L=0 baryon state which has not been observed, to be 6069.2 MeV. The spectra of charmed and bottom baryons with the orbital angular momentum L= 1 are studied in two popular constituent quark models, the Goldstone boson exchange （GBE） model and the one gluon exchange （OGE） hyperfine interaction model. Inserting the latest experimental data from the ＂Review of Particle Physics＂, we find that in the GBE model, there exist some multiplets （∑c（b）, ≡c（b） and Ωc（b）） in which the total spin of the three quarks in their lowest energy states is 3/2, but in the OGE model there is no such phenomenon. This is the most important difference between the GBE and OGE models. These results can be tested in the near future. We suggest more efforts to study the excited charmed and bottom baryons both theoretically and experimentally, not only for the abundance of baryon spectra, but also for determining which hyperfine interaction model best describes nature.
The spin is an important property of a particle. Although it is unlikely, there is still a possibility that two particles with different spins share similar masses. In this paper, we propose a method to probe this kind of mass degeneracy of particles with different spins. We use the cascade decay B^＋ →X（3872）K^＋, X（3872）→D^＋D^- to illustrate our method. It can be seen that the possible mass degeneracy of X（3872） can lead to interesting behavior in the corresponding cascade decay.
Numerical simulation results are presented for a drift-diffusion rate equation model which describes electronic transport due to sequential tunneling between adjacent quantum wells in weakly coupled semiconductor superlattices （SLs）. The electron dynamics is dependent on the external magnetic field perpendicular to the electron motion direction, and a detailed explanation is given. Using different parameters, the system shows different dynamic behaviors, and three distinct phenomena are observed and controlled by increasing magnetic field. （i） For a lower doping density, the system state transfers from stable state to oscillationary state. （ii） An opposite result is obtained to that in the case （i） for an intermediate value of the doping density, and the state changes from oscillationary to stationary. （iii） The state varies between oscillationary and stationary when doping density is large. Then, a detailed theoretical analysis is given to explain these surprise phenomena. The distribution of the electric-field domain along the SLs is plotted. We find the structure of the domain is almost uniform for a lower doping density, and no domain occurs in the SLs. By adding an external ac signal, complex nonlinear behaviors are observed from the Poincaré map and the corresponding phase diagrams when the driving frequency changes.
