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quant-ph2012★ 9 cited

Mesoscopic mean-field theory for spin-boson chains in quantum optical systems

Pedro Nevado, Diego Porras

We present a theoretical description of a system of many spins strongly coupled to a bosonic chain. We rely on the use of a spin-wave theory describing the Gaussian fluctuations ar…

math.FA2012

On very non-linear subsets of continuous functions

G. Botelho, D. Cariello, V. V. Fávaro +2

In this paper we continue the study initiated by Gurariy and Quarta in 2004 on the existence of linear spaces formed, up to the null vector, by continuous functions that attain the…

gr-qc2012★ 22 cited

Uniqueness of the Fock quantization of scalar fields under mode preserving canonical transformations varying in time

Jerónimo Cortez, Lucía Fonseca, Daniel Martín-de Blas +1

We study the Fock quantization of scalar fields of Klein-Gordon type in nonstationary scenarios propagating in spacetimes with compact spatial sections, allowing for different fiel…

quant-ph2012★ 42 cited

Circuit QED bright source for chiral entangled light based on dissipation

Fernando Quijandría, Diego Porras, Juan José García-Ripoll +1

Based on a circuit QED qubit-cavity array a source of two-mode entangled microwave radiation is designed. Our scheme is rooted in the combination of external driving, collective ph…

cond-mat.stat-mech2012★ 4 cited

Material Dependence of the Wire-Particle Casimir Interaction

E. Noruzifar, P. Rodriguez-Lopez, T. Emig +1

We study the Casimir interaction between a metallic cylindrical wire and a metallic spherical particle by employing the scattering formalism. At large separations, we derive the as…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 102 cited

Constraints on the origin of cosmic rays above eV from large scale anisotropy searches in data of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Pierre Auger Collaboration

A thorough search for large scale anisotropies in the distribution of arrival directions of cosmic rays detected above eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory is reported. For…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 58 cited

Testing Diagnostics of Nuclear Activity and Star Formation in Galaxies at z>1

Jonathan R. Trump, Nicholas P. Konidaris, Guillermo Barro +9

We present some of the first science data with the new Keck/MOSFIRE instrument to test the effectiveness of different AGN/SF diagnostics at z~1.5. MOSFIRE spectra were obtained in…

math.AP2012

A note on the existence of global solutions for reaction-diffusion equations with almost-monotonic nonlinearities

Aníbal Rodríguez-Bernal, Alejandro Vidal-López

We show that reaction-diffusion equations with almost-monotonic nonlinear terms are well-posed in for each and the solutions are globally defined.

quant-ph2012★ 230 cited

Quantum simulation of open-system dynamical maps with trapped ions

P. Schindler, M. Müller, D. Nigg +7

Dynamical maps describe general transformations of the state of a physical system, and their iteration can be interpreted as generating a discrete time evolution. Prime examples in…

math.AG2012★ 14 cited

On complements of convex polyhedra as polynomial and regular images of

José F. Fernando, Carlos Ueno

In this work we prove constructively that the complement $\R^n\setminus\pol$ of a convex polyhedron $\pol\subset\R^n$ and the complement $\R^n\setminus\Int(\pol)$ of its interior a…

cond-mat.quant-gas2012★ 185 cited

Direct imaging of topological edge states in cold-atom systems

N. Goldman, J. Dalibard, A. Dauphin +4

Detecting topological order in cold-atom experiments is an ongoing challenge, the resolution of which offers novel perspectives on topological matter. In material systems, unambigu…

gr-qc2012★ 56 cited

On the non-attractive character of gravity in f(R) theories

F. D. Albareti, J. A. R. Cembranos, A. de la Cruz-Dombriz +1

In General Relativity without a cosmological constant a non-positive contribution from the space-time geometry to Raychaudhuri equation is found provided that particular energy con…

quant-ph2012★ 71 cited

Vanishing quantum discord is not necessary for completely-positive maps

Aharon Brodutch, Animesh Datta, Kavan Modi +2

The description of the dynamics of a system that may be correlated with its environment is only meaningful within the context of a specific framework. Different frameworks rely upo…

nucl-th2012★ 25 cited

Upper Energy Limit of Heavy Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory in Neutral Pion Photoproduction

C. Fernandez-Ramirez, A. M. Bernstein

With the availability of the new neutral pion photoproduction from the proton data from the A2 and CB-TAPS Collaborations at Mainz it is mandatory to revisit Heavy Baryon Chiral Pe…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 53 cited

Isotropy theorem for cosmological Yang-Mills theories

J. A. R. Cembranos, A. L. Maroto, S. J. Núñez Jareño

We consider homogeneous non-abelian vector fields with general potential terms in an expanding universe. We find a mechanical analogy with a system of N interacting particles (with…

nucl-th2012

Strangeness and Charm in Nuclear Matter

Laura Tolos, Daniel Cabrera, Carmen Garcia-Recio +6

The properties of strange (, and ) and open-charm (, and ) mesons in dense matter are studied using a unitary approach in coupled channels fo…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 32 cited

The complex physics of dusty star-forming galaxies at high redshifts as revealed by Herschel and Spitzer

B. Lo Faro, A. Franceschini, M. Vaccari +29

We combine far-infrared photometry from Herschel (PEP/HERMES) with deep mid-infrared spectroscopy from Spitzer to investigate the nature and the mass assembly history of a sample o…

quant-ph2012★ 8 cited

Dissipative and stochastic geometric phase of a qubit within a canonical Langevin framework

Pedro Bargueño, S. Miret-Artés

Dissipative and stochastic effects in the geometric phase of a qubit are taken into account using a geometrical description of the corresponding open--system dynamics within a cano…

gr-qc2012★ 49 cited

Uniqueness of the Fock quantization of scalar fields in spatially flat cosmological spacetimes

Laura Castelló Gomar, Jerónimo Cortez, Daniel Martín-de Blas +2

We study the Fock quantization of scalar fields in (generically) time dependent scenarios, focusing on the case in which the field propagation occurs in --either a background or ef…

quant-ph2012★ 28 cited

Informational completeness of continuous-variable measurements

D. Sych, J. Rehacek, Z. Hradil +2

We justify that homodyne tomography turns out to be informationally complete when the number of independent quadrature measurements is equal to the dimension of the density matrix…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 77 cited

A Search for Point Sources of EeV Neutrons

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

A thorough search of the sky exposed at the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory reveals no statistically significant excess of events in any small solid angle that would be indicat…

quant-ph2012★ 26 cited

Preparing topological PEPS on a quantum computer

Martin Schwarz, Toby S. Cubitt, Kristan Temme +2

Simulating of exotic phases of matter that are not amenable to classical techniques is one of the most important potential applications of quantum information processing. We presen…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 10 cited

A comprehensive study of NGC 2023 with XMM-Newton and Spitzer

M. A. López-García, J. López-Santiago, J. F. Albacete-Colombo +2

Nearby star-forming regions are ideal laboratories to study high-energy emission of different stellar populations, from very massive stars to brown dwarfs. NGC 2023 is a reflection…

astro-ph.HE2012

Pulsar Prospects for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

T. Hassan, S. Bonnefoy, M. Lopez +6

In the last few years, the Fermi-LAT telescope has discovered over a 100 pulsars at energies above 100 MeV, increasing the number of known gamma-ray pulsars by an order of magnitud…