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quant-ph2008

Resonant Cascaded Down-Conversion

Christian Weedbrook, Ben Perrett, Karen V. Kheruntsyan +3

We analyze an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) in which cascaded down-conversion occurs inside a cavity resonant for all modes but the initial pump. Due to the resonant cascade…

cond-mat.other2008★ 69 cited

Non-local pair correlations in the 1D Bose gas at finite temperature

P. Deuar, A. G. Sykes, D. M. Gangardt +3

The behavior of the spatial two-particle correlation function is surveyed in detail for a uniform 1D Bose gas with repulsive contact interactions at finite temperatures. Both long-…

physics.bio-ph2008★ 220 cited

Nanomechanical detection of antibiotic-mucopeptide binding in a model for superbug drug resistance

J. W. Ndieyira, M. Watari, A. Donoso Barrera +10

The alarming growth of the antibiotic-resistant superbugs methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) is driving the development…

physics.optics2008★ 7 cited

T-matrix calculation via discrete-dipole approximation, point matching and exploiting symmetry

Vincent L. Y. Loke, Timo A. Nieminen, N. R. Heckenberg +1

We present a method of incorporating the discrete dipole approximation (DDA) method with the point matching method to formulate the T-matrix for modeling arbitrarily shaped micro-s…

physics.optics2008

Symmetry and the generation and measurement of optical torque

Timo A. Nieminen, Theodor Asavei, Vincent L. Y. Loke +2

A key element in the generation of optical torque in optical traps, which occurs when electromagnetic angular momentum is transferred from the trapping beam to the trapped particle…

cond-mat.other2008★ 28 cited

Dynamical formation and interaction of bright solitary waves and solitons in the collapse of Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive interactions

B. J. Dabrowska-Wuester, S. Wuester, M. J. Davis

We model the dynamics of formation of multiple, long-lived, bright solitary waves in the collapse of Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive interactions as studied in the experi…

quant-ph2008★ 53 cited

Generation of pure continuous-variable entangled cluster states of four separate atomic ensembles in a ring cavity

Gao-xiang Li, Sha-sha Ke, Zbigniew Ficek

A practical scheme is proposed for creation of continuous variable entangled cluster states of four distinct atomic ensembles located inside a high-finesse ring cavity. The scheme…

cond-mat.str-el2008★ 120 cited

A real-time study of diffusive and ballistic transport in spin-1/2 chains using the adaptive time-dependent density matrix renormalization group method

S. Langer, F. Heidrich-Meisner, J. Gemmer +2

Using the adaptive time-dependent density matrix renormalization group method, we numerically study the spin dynamics and transport in one-dimensional spin-1/2 systems at zero temp…

quant-ph2008★ 27 cited

Symmetric extension in two-way quantum key distribution

Geir Ove Myhr, Joseph M. Renes, Andrew C. Doherty +1

We introduce symmetric extensions of bipartite quantum states as a tool for analyzing protocols that distill secret key from quantum correlations. Whether the correlations are comi…

quant-ph2008★ 37 cited

A dynamic scheme for generating number squeezing in Bose-Einstein condensates through nonlinear interactions

S. A. Haine, M. T. Johnsson

We develop a scheme to generate number squeezing in a Bose-Einstein condensate by utilizing interference between two hyperfine levels and nonlinear atomic interactions. We describe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 35 cited

Mixed valency in cerium oxide crystallographic phases: Determination of valence of the different cerium sites by the bond valence method

E. Shoko, M. F. Smith, Ross H. McKenzie

We have applied the bond valence method to cerium oxides to determine the oxidation states of the Ce ion at the various site symmetries of the crystals. The crystals studied includ…

quant-ph2008★ 62 cited

Entanglement evolution of two remote and non-identical Jaynes-Cummings atoms

S. Chan, M. D. Reid, Z. Ficek

A detailed treatment of the entanglement dynamics of two distant but non-identical systems is presented. We study the entanglement evolution of two remote atoms interacting indepen…

astro-ph2008★ 55 cited

Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Supernovae from the ESSENCE Project: The First Four Years

R. J. Foley, T. Matheson, S. Blondin +23

We present the results of spectroscopic observations from the ESSENCE high-redshift supernova (SN) survey during its first four years of operation. This sample includes spectra of…

cond-mat.str-el2008★ 24 cited

Quasiparticles in the Kondo lattice model at partial fillings of the conduction band

S. Smerat, I. P. McCulloch, H. Schoeller +1

We study the spectral properties of the one-dimensional Kondo lattice model as function of the exchange coupling, the band filling, and the quasimomentum in the ferromagnetic and p…

nucl-th2008★ 55 cited

Dissipative quantum dynamics in low-energy collisions of complex nuclei

Alexis Diaz-Torres, David Hinde, Mahananda Dasgupta +2

Model calculations that include the effects of irreversible, environmental couplings on top of a coupled-channels dynamical description of the collision of two complex nuclei are p…

quant-ph2008★ 14 cited

Spectral Effects of Strong Chi-2 Non-Linearity for Quantum Processing

P. M. Leung, William J. Munro, Kae Nemoto +1

Optical non-linearity can be used for parametric amplification and producing down-converted entangled photon pairs that have broad applications. It is known that weak non…

nucl-th2008★ 2 cited

Coupled-Channels Approach for Dissipative Quantum Dynamics in Near-Barrier Collisions

Alexis Diaz-Torres, David Hinde, Mahananda Dasgupta +2

A novel quantum dynamical model based on the dissipative quantum dynamics of open quantum systems is presented. It allows the treatment of both deep-inelastic processes and quantum…

math-ph2008★ 9 cited

Integrable boundary conditions for a non-abelian anyon chain with symmetry

K. A. Dancer, P. E. Finch, P. S. Isaac +1

A general formulation of the Boundary Quantum Inverse Scattering Method is given which is applicable in cases where -matrix solutions of the Yang--Baxter equation do not have th…

quant-ph2008★ 21 cited

Quantum error correction on infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces

Cédric Bény, Achim Kempf, David W. Kribs

We present a generalization of quantum error correction to infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. The generalization yields new classes of quantum error correcting codes that have no…

quant-ph2008★ 35 cited

Breakdown of the rotating-wave approximation in entanglement description of spin anti-correlated states

Jun Jing, Zhi-Guo Lu, Zbigniew Ficek

It is well established that an entanglement encoded in the Bell states of a two-qubit system with correlated spins exhibits completely different evolution properties than that enco…

quant-ph2008

Conservation rules for entanglement transfer between qubits

S. Chan, M. D. Reid, Z. Ficek

We consider an entangled but non-interacting qubit pair a_{1} and b_{1} that are independently coupled to a set of local qubit systems, a_{I} and b_{J}, of 0-bit value, respectivel…

math-ph2008★ 34 cited

The Schrodinger equation with Hulthen potential plus ring-shaped potential

D. Agboola

We present the solutions of the Schrdinger equation with the Hulthn potential plus ring-shape potential for states within the framework of an expo…

quant-ph2008★ 65 cited

The Optical Frequency Comb as a One-Way Quantum Computer

Steven T. Flammia, Nicolas C. Menicucci, Oliver Pfister

In the one-way model of quantum computing, quantum algorithms are implemented using only measurements on an entangled initial state. Much of the hard work is done up-front when cre…

quant-ph2008★ 13 cited

A comparative study of dynamical simulation methods for the dissociation of molecular Bose-Einstein condensates

S. L. W. Midgley, S. Wuester, M. K. Olsen +2

We describe a pairing mean-field theory related to the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approach, and apply it to the dynamics of dissociation of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)…