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quant-ph2008★ 19 cited

Two Mode Photon Bunching Effect as Witness of Quantum Criticality in Circuit QED

Qing Ai, Ying-Dan Wang, Guilu Long +1

We suggest a scheme to probe critical phenomena at a quantum phase transition (QPT) using the quantum correlation of two photonic modes simultaneously coupled to a critical system.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 19 cited

Adsorption and dissociation of O at Be(0001): First-principles prediction of an energy barrier on the adiabatic potential energy surface

Ping Zhang, Bo Sun, Yu Yang

The adsorption and dissociation of O molecules at the Be(0001) surface is studied by using density-functional theory within the generalized gradient approximation and a super…

hep-ex2008★ 2 cited

A simulation study on the measurement of D0-D0bar mixing parameter y at BES-III

Bin Huang, Yang-Heng Zheng, Wei-dong Li

We established a method on measuring the $\dzdzb$ mixing parameter for BESIII experiment at the BEPCII collider. In this method, the doubly tagged $ψ(3770) \to D^0 \ov…

hep-ex2008★ 73 cited

Kinematic distributions and nuclear effects of production in 920 GeV fixed-target proton-nucleus collisions

B Collaboration

Measurements of the kinematic distributions of mesons produced in C, Ti and W collisions at in the Feynman- region $-0.34 < x_{F}…

physics.plasm-ph2008★ 5 cited

Time-dependent energetic proton acceleration and scaling laws in ultra-intense laser pulses interactions with thin foils

Yongsheng Huang, Yuanjie Bi, Yijin Shi +3

A two-phase model, where the plasma expansion is an isothermal one when laser irradiates and a following adiabatic one after laser ends, has been proposed to predict the maximum en…

quant-ph2008

A Unified Quantum NOT Gate

Z. W. Yu, X. T. Ni, L. C. Kwek +1

We study the feasibility of implementing a quantum NOT gate (approximate) when the quantum state lies between two latitudes on the Bloch's sphere and present an analytical formula…

nucl-ex2008★ 10 cited

Cooling effect in emissions of 103mRh excited by bremsstrahlung

Yao Cheng, Bing Xia, Chinping Chen

Nonlinear characteristic emissions of K alpha, K beta and gamma with a significant triplet splitting at room temperature are observed from the long-lived nuclear state of 103mRh ex…

nucl-ex2008★ 52 cited

Observation of Two-source Interference in the Photoproduction Reaction

B. I. Abelev

In ultra-peripheral relativistic heavy-ion collisions, a photon from the electromagnetic field of one nucleus can fluctuate to a quark-antiquark pair and scatter from the other nuc…

nucl-th2008★ 24 cited

BCS-BEC Crossover and Thermodynamics in Asymmetric Nuclear Matter with Pairings in Isospin I=0 and I=1 Channels

Shijun Mao, Xuguang Huang, Pengfei Zhuang

The BCS-BEC crossover and phase diagram for asymmetric nuclear superfluid with pairings in isospin I = 0 and I = 1 channels are investigated at mean field level, by using a density…

hep-ex2008★ 4 cited

V^0 production in p+A collisions at \sqrt{s} = 41.6 GeV

B Collaboration

Inclusive doubly differential cross sections d^2σ_{pA}/dx_Fdp_T^2 as a function of Feynman-x (x_F) and transverse momentum (p_T) for the production of K^0_s, Lambda^0 and anti-Lamb…

nucl-th2008★ 7 cited

Quark and Gluon Condensates in Isospin Matter

Lianyi He, Yin Jiang, Pengfei Zhuang

Applying the Hellmann-Feynman theorem to a charged pion gas, the quark and gluon condensates at low isospin density are determined by precise pion properties. At intermediate densi…

quant-ph2008★ 42 cited

Nonlocal Entanglement Transformations Achievable by Separable Operations

Eric Chitambar, Runyao Duan

For manipulations of multipartite quantum systems, it was well known that all local operations assisted by classical communication (LOCC) constitute a proper subset of the class of…

cs.CC2008

On the Complexity of Matroid Isomorphism Problem

Raghavendra Rao B. V., Jayalal M. N. Sarma

We study the complexity of testing if two given matroids are isomorphic. The problem is easily seen to be in . In the case of linear matroids, which are represented over pol…

cs.DS2008

Tight Approximation Ratio of a General Greedy Splitting Algorithm for the Minimum k-Way Cut Problem

Mingyu Xiao, Leizhen Cai, Andrew C. Yao

For an edge-weighted connected undirected graph, the minimum -way cut problem is to find a subset of edges of minimum total weight whose removal separates the graph into con…

cond-mat.supr-con2008★ 91 cited

Imaging nanoscale Fermi surface variations in an inhomogeneous superconductor

W. D. Wise, Kamalesh Chatterjee, M. C. Boyer +8

Particle-wave duality suggests we think of electrons as waves stretched across a sample, with wavevector k proportional to their momentum. Their arrangement in "k-space," and in pa…

astro-ph2008★ 175 cited

A Golden Standard Type Ia Supernova SN 2005cf: Observations from the Ultraviolet to the Near-Infrared Wavebands

Xiaofeng Wang, Weidong Li, Alexei V. Filippenko +31

We present extensive photometry at ultraviolet (UV), optical, and near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths, as well as dense sampling of optical spectra, for the normal type Ia supernova (S…

hep-ex2008★ 84 cited

First Study of Neutron Tagging with a Water Cherenkov Detector

Kamiokande Collaboration, H. Watanabe, H. Zhang

A first study of neutron tagging is conducted in Super--Kamiokande, a 50,000-ton water Cherenkov detector. The tagging efficiencies of thermal neutrons are evaluated in a 0.2 % GdC…

hep-ph2008★ 5 cited

Electroweak Chiral Lagrangian from Natural Topcolor-assisted Technicolor Model

Jun-Yi Lang, Shao-Zhou Jiang, Qing Wang

Based on previous studies computing coefficients of the electroweak chiral Lagrangian from C.T.Hill's schematic topcolor-assisted technicolor model, we generalize the calculation t…

cond-mat.supr-con2008★ 97 cited

Coexistence of Itinerant Electrons and Local Moments in Iron-Based Superconductors

Su-Peng Kou, Tao Li, Zheng-Yu Weng

In view of the recent experimental facts in the iron-pnictides, we make a proposal that the itinerant electrons and local moments are simultaneously present in such multiband mater…

hep-ex2008★ 6 cited

Measurements of the observed cross sections for exclusive light hadrons containing at , 3.650 and 3.6648 GeV

BES Collaboration

By analyzing the data sets of 17.3, 6.5 and 1.0 pb taken, respectively, at , 3.650 and 3.6648 GeV with the BES-II detector at the BEPC collider, we measure t…

hep-ex2008★ 6 cited

Measurements of the observed cross sections for e+e -> exclusive light hadrons containing K^S_0 meson at \sqrt{s} = 3.773 and 3.650 GeV

BES Collaboration

By analyzing the data sets of 17.3 pb taken at GeV and of 6.5 pb taken at GeV with the BES-II detector at the BEPC collider, we meas…

astro-ph2008★ 25 cited

A Major X-ray Outburst from an Ultraluminous X-Ray Source in M82

Philip Kaaret, Hua Feng, Mark Gorski

We detected a major X-ray outburst from M82 with a duration of 79 days, an average flux of 5E-11 erg cm^-2 s^-1 in the 2-10 keV band, and strong variability. The X-ray spectrum rem…

cond-mat.mes-hall2008★ 35 cited

Field-induced Gap and Quantized Charge Pumping in Nano-helix

Xiao-Liang Qi, Shou-Cheng Zhang

We propose several novel physical phenomena based on nano-scale helical wires. Applying a static electric field transverse to the helical wire induces a metal to insulator transiti…

nucl-ex2008★ 96 cited

Energy and system size dependence of ϕmeson production in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions

STAR Collaboration

We study the beam-energy and system-size dependence of ϕmeson production (using the hadronic decay mode ϕ-- K+K-) by comparing the new results from Cu+Cu collisions and previously…