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quant-ph2013★ 190 cited

Ultimate communication capacity of quantum optical channels by solving the Gaussian minimum-entropy conjecture

V. Giovannetti, R. Garcia-Patron, N. J. Cerf +1

Optical channels, such as fibers or free-space links, are ubiquitous in today's telecommunication networks. They rely on the electromagnetic field associated with photons to carry…

quant-ph2013★ 39 cited

Quantum simulation of bosonic-fermionic non-interacting particles in disordered systems via quantum walk

Francesco De Nicola, Linda Sansoni, Andrea Crespi +6

We report on the theoretical analysis of bosonic and fermionic non-interacting systems in a discrete two-particle quantum walk affected by different kinds of disorder. We considere…

math.OC2013★ 10 cited

Shape Optimization Problems for Metric Graphs

Giuseppe Buttazzo, Berardo Ruffini, Bozhidar Velichkov

We consider the shape optimization problem where is the one-dimensional Hausdorff…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 184 cited

High performance bilayer-graphene Terahertz detectors

Davide Spirito, Dominique Coquillat, Sergio L. De Bonis +7

We report bilayer-graphene field effect transistors operating as THz broadband photodetectors based on plasma-waves excitation. By employing wide-gate geometries or buried gate con…

math.AP2013★ 37 cited

Lipschitz regularity of the eigenfunctions on optimal domains

Dorin Bucur, Dario Mazzoleni, Aldo Pratelli +1

We study the optimal sets for spectral functionals , which are bi-Lipschitz with respect to each of the eigenvalues $λ_1…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 15 cited

Balanced double-loop mesoscopic interferometer based on Josephson proximity nanojunctions

Alberto Ronzani, Carles Altimiras, Francesco Giazotto

We report on the fabrication and characterization of a two-terminal mesoscopic interferometer based on three V/Cu/V Josephson junctions having nanoscale cross-section. The junction…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 70 cited

Giant thermovoltage in single InAs-nanowire field-effect transistors

Stefano Roddaro, Daniele Ercolani, Mian Akif Safeen +5

Millivolt range thermovoltage is demonstrated in single InAs-nanowire based field effect transistors. Thanks to a buried heating scheme, we drive both a large thermal bias DT>10K a…

quant-ph2013

An experimental proposal for a Gaussian amendable quantum channel

Daniela Buono, Gaetano Nocerino, Alberto Porzio +3

We propose a quantum optics experiment where a single two-mode Gaussian entangled state is used for realizing the paradigm of an amendable Gaussian channel recently presented in Ph…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 12 cited

Manifestation of a spin-splitting field in a thermally-biased Josephson junction

F. S. Bergeret, F. Giazotto

We investigate the behavior of a Josephson junction consisting of a ferromagnetic insulator-superconductor (FI-S) bilayer tunnel-coupled to a superconducting electrode. We show tha…

physics.chem-ph2013★ 71 cited

Hydrogen storage with titanium-functionalized graphene

Torge Mashoff, Makoto Takamura, Shinichi Tanabe +3

We report on hydrogen adsorption and desorption on titanium-covered graphene in order to test theoretical proposals to use of graphene functionalized with metal atoms for hydrogen…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 33 cited

Selective control of edge-channel trajectories by scanning gate microscopy

N. Paradiso, S. Heun, S. Roddaro +5

Electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers in the Quantum Hall (QH) regime are currently discussed for the realization of quantum information schemes. A recently proposed device archi…

hep-ex2013★ 4 cited

Search for the decay

The BABAR Collaboration

We report a search for the decay . Using a data sample of pairs collect…

hep-ex2013★ 50 cited

Measurement of the production cross section for a W boson and two b jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

The production cross section for a W boson and two b jets is measured using proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV in a data sample collected with the CMS experiment at the LH…

hep-ex2013★ 51 cited

Measurement of four-jet production in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Measurements of the differential cross sections for the production of exactly four jets in proton-proton collisions are presented as a function of the transverse momentum pt and ps…

hep-ph2013★ 82 cited

PPPC 4 DM: A Poor Particle Physicist Cookbook for Neutrinos from DM annihilations in the Sun

Pietro Baratella, Marco Cirelli, Andi Hektor +3

We provide ingredients and recipes for computing neutrino signals of TeV-scale Dark Matter annihilations in the Sun. For each annihilation channel and DM mass we present the energy…

hep-ex2013★ 137 cited

Measurement of the muon charge asymmetry in inclusive pp to WX production at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and an improved determination of light parton distribution functions

CMS Collaboration

Measurements of the muon charge asymmetry in inclusive pp to WX production at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV are presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 inverse…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 31 cited

Tunable non-equilibrium Luttinger liquid based on counter-propagating edge channels

M. G. Prokudina, S. Ludwig, V. Pellegrini +3

We investigate energy transfer between counter-propagating quantum Hall edge channels (ECs) in a two-dimensional electron system at filling factor ν=1. The ECs are separated by a t…

hep-ex2013★ 502 cited

Measurement of the properties of a Higgs boson in the four-lepton final state

CMS Collaboration

The properties of a Higgs boson candidate are measured in the H to ZZ to 4l decay channel, with l = e, mu, using data from pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity o…

nucl-ex2013★ 107 cited

Evidence of b-jet quenching in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV

CMS Collaboration

The production of jets associated to bottom quarks is measured for the first time in PbPb collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair. Jet spectra are report…

hep-ex2013★ 79 cited

Search for flavor-changing neutral currents in top-quark decays t to Zq in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for flavor-changing neutral currents in top-quark decays t to Zq is performed in events produced from the decay chain t t-bar to Zq + Wb, where both vector bosons decay le…

quant-ph2013★ 98 cited

Quantum state majorization at the output of bosonic Gaussian channels

Andrea Mari, Vittorio Giovannetti, Alexander S. Holevo

Quantum communication theory explores the implications of quantum mechanics to the tasks of information transmission. Many physical channels can be formally described as quantum Ga…

hep-ex2013★ 60 cited

Search for top squark and higgsino production using diphoton Higgs boson decays

CMS Collaboration

Results are presented of a search for a "natural" supersymmetry scenario with gauge mediated symmetry breaking. It is assumed that only the supersymmetric partners of the top quark…

hep-ex2013★ 25 cited

Measurement of the radiative decay of polarized muons in the MEG experiment

MEG Collaboration, A. M. Baldini, Y. Bao +68

We studied the radiative muon decay by using for the first time an almost fully polarized muon source. We identified a large sample (~13000) of these decays in…

hep-ph2013★ 45 cited

A bound on the charm chromo-EDM and its implications

Filippo Sala

We derive bounds on the electric and chromo-electric dipole moments of the charm quark. The second one turns out to be particularly strong, and we quantify its impact on models tha…