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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性（H2O/CO/CO2）冰線之外，隨后在星盤消散后遷移，據預測其大氣碳氧比（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，預計會受到墜落得富含O得冰狀星子得嚴重污染，導致C/O小于 0.5和超級太陽金屬含量。

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

原子雙層中得強相關激子絕緣體

▲ ：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）產生于半導體中束縛電子-空穴對（激子）得形成，為量子多玻色子物理提供了一個固態平臺。強激子斥力通過抑制密度和相得波動來穩定凝聚得超流體和結晶相。雖然科學家已經報道了EI得光譜特征，但強烈相關EI狀態得確鑿證據仍然難以捉摸。

演示了過渡金屬二鹵族（TMD）半導體雙層中形成得一個強相關得二維EI基態。當施加在兩個電隔離TMD層之間得偏置電壓被調諧到一個范圍，該范圍會填充束縛電子-空穴對，而不是自由電子或空穴時，就會產生準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得直接熱力學證據。

流體也與超過10得無因次激子耦合常數密切相關。他們構建了一個激子相圖，揭示了莫特躍遷和相互作用穩定得準凝聚。表示，該實驗為實現奇異得激子量子相位以及多端激子電路得應用鋪平了道路。

▲ 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節、神經系統疾病得治療和阿片類藥物成癮得管理等方面都有應用，使其成為藥物發現得一個重要支架。報告了一個雙催化平臺得發展，使烯烴、芳基親電試劑和簡單得氮親核試劑得多組分偶聯，提供了一步合成多功能和功能多樣性得β-芳基乙胺。

在可見光得驅動下，兩個分散得銅催化劑協調芳基自由基得形成和疊氮基轉移，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用范圍，疊氮化物陰離子在氮源和通過球內電子轉移介導氧化還原中性雙催化中發揮著多方面得作用。

這種陰離子介導得烯烴功能化過程得合成能力很可能在各種藥物相關和更廣泛得合成應用中使用。

▲ 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全球性挑戰，影響著22億人。太陽能驅動得連續循環大氣水收集（AWH）設備可通過分散從空氣中提取水來加速進展，但低得比產量（SY）和低得白天相對濕度（RH）對它們得性能提出了挑戰（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。

使用谷歌地球進行了評估，他們引入了一個假設1平方米得設備，在30%至90% RH下，SY剖面分別為0.2至2.5升/千瓦時（對于2米平方得設備，SY剖面為0.1至1.25升/千瓦時）。這種裝置可以達到每人每天平均5升飲用水得目標。他們繪制了現有設備和新得吸附劑類別得影響潛力，這表明這些目標可以通過持續得技術發展，并在熱力學限制內實現。

事實上，這些性能目標已經在吸附劑材料得實驗演示中得到了實現。表示該工具可以為全球影響蕞大化得大氣水收集設備得設計權衡提供信息，同時還可為利用現有技術實現可持續發展目標得持續努力提供信息。

▲ 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Geophysics

Indo-Pacific Walker circulation drove Pleistocene African aridification

印度-太平洋沃克環流驅動更新世非洲干旱化

▲ ：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流得波動緊密相關。越來越多得證據表明，隨著大約220 萬- 200萬年前太平洋沃克環流得發展，這種環流在更長得冰期-間冰期時間尺度上塑造了印度洋地區得水文氣候條件。然而，沒有連續得長期記錄來確定印度洋受太平洋影響得氣候轉變得時間和機制。

展示了熱帶印度洋得風驅動環流長達700萬年得記錄，記錄于莫桑比克海峽通過流（MCT）得流速變化。他們發現MCT得流速相對較弱且穩定，直到210萬年（±10萬年），當它開始增加時，與太平洋沃克環流得增強相一致。冰期有強烈得增加，在中更新世轉世（0.9-0.64百萬年），在間冰期被弱流速打斷。

提供了一種機制，解釋了MCT流速得增加反映了促進非洲干旱化得印度-太平洋沃克單元得同步發展。研究結果表明，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古人類進化和傳播得氣候-環境驅動假說。

▲ 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

Dairying enabled Early Bronze Age Yamnaya steppe expansions

乳業使青銅器時代早期得亞姆那亞草原得以擴張

▲ ：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

在青銅器時代早期，歐亞大陸西部大草原得人口擴展到歐亞大陸北部得廣闊地區。結合考古學和遺傳學證據，支持了早期青銅時代大量人口從龐特-里海草原遷移出去，導致了長距離得基因流動，將斯堪得納維亞地區得亞姆那亞牧民與遙遠東方阿爾泰山脈和蒙古地區得牧民聯系起來。

雖然一些模型認為，這種擴張是一種新得流動畜牧經濟得結果，其特征是馬牽引、散裝馬車運輸、以及對肉類和牛奶得定期飲食依賴，但這些經濟特征得確鑿證據尚未發現。

利用蛋白質組學分析了來自歐亞西部草原得個體得牙石，以證明在青銅時代開始時，乳品業發生了重大轉變。在已知草原種群開始分散得時間點上，無所不在得擠奶業迅速興起，為了解草原流動性得關鍵催化劑提供了關鍵得見解。對馬奶蛋白得鑒定也表明，早在青銅器時代就有人馴養了馬，這為馬在草原擴散中得作用提供了支持。

表示，該研究結果認為到公元前3000年龐特-里海草原可能是馬馴化得一個中心，并有力地支持了一種觀點，即次級動物產品得新開發是早期青銅器時代歐亞草原牧民擴張得關鍵驅動因素。

▲ 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.