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quant-ph/0610027
Verstraete Frank
K.M.R. Audenaert, J. Calsamiglia, Ll. Masanes, R. Munoz-Tapia, A. Acin, E. Bagan, F. Verstraete
The Quantum Chernoff Bound
null
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 160501 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.160501
null
quant-ph
null
We consider the problem of discriminating two different quantum states in the setting of asymptotically many copies, and determine the optimal strategy that minimizes the total probability of error. This leads to the identification of the quantum Chernoff bound, thereby solving a long standing open problem. The bound reduces to the classical Chernoff bound when the quantum states under consideration commute. The quantum Chernoff bound is the natural symmetric distance measure between quantum states because of its clear operational meaning and because of the fact that it does not seem to share the undesirable features of other distance measures like the fidelity, the trace norm and the relative entropy.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 4 Oct 2006 19:34:24 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Audenaert", "K. M. R.", "" ], [ "Calsamiglia", "J.", "" ], [ "Masanes", "Ll.", "" ], [ "Munoz-Tapia", "R.", "" ], [ "Acin", "A.", "" ], [ "Bagan", "E.", "" ], [ "Verstraete", "F.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610028
Daniel A. Lidar
A. Shabani and D.A. Lidar (USC)
Quantum Error Correction Beyond Completely Positive Maps
This paper has been withdrawn as it has been superseded by arXiv:0808.0175 and arXiv:0902.2478
null
null
null
quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
By introducing an operator sum representation for arbitrary linear maps, we develop a generalized theory of quantum error correction (QEC) that applies to any linear map, in particular maps that are not completely positive (CP). This theory of "linear quantum error correction" is applicable in cases where the standard and restrictive assumption of a factorized initial system-bath state does not apply.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 5 Oct 2006 19:56:43 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:02:36 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:12:44 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:24:57 GMT" } ]
2009-10-21T00:00:00
[ [ "Shabani", "A.", "", "USC" ], [ "Lidar", "D. A.", "", "USC" ] ]
quant-ph/0610029
Wenzhou Chen
W. Chen, D. Meiser, and P. Meystre
Cavity QED determination of atomic number statistics in optical lattices
10 pages revtex, 13 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.023812
null
quant-ph cond-mat.other physics.atom-ph
null
We study the reflection of two counter-propagating modes of the light field in a ring resonator by ultracold atoms either in the Mott insulator state or in the superfluid state of an optical lattice. We obtain exact numerical results for a simple two-well model and carry out statistical calculations appropriate for the full lattice case. We find that the dynamics of the reflected light strongly depends on both the lattice spacing and the state of the matter-wave field. Depending on the lattice spacing, the light field is sensitive to various density-density correlation functions of the atoms. The light field and the atoms become strongly entangled if the latter are in a superfluid state, in which case the photon statistics typically exhibit complicated multimodal structures.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 5 Oct 2006 01:49:38 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:55:23 GMT" } ]
2015-06-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Chen", "W.", "" ], [ "Meiser", "D.", "" ], [ "Meystre", "P.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610030
Stephen D. Bartlett
Stephen D. Bartlett, Terry Rudolph, and Robert W. Spekkens
Reference frames, superselection rules, and quantum information
55 pages, published version
Rev. Mod. Phys. 79, 555 (2007)
10.1103/RevModPhys.79.555
null
quant-ph
null
Recently, there has been much interest in a new kind of ``unspeakable'' quantum information that stands to regular quantum information in the same way that a direction in space or a moment in time stands to a classical bit string: the former can only be encoded using particular degrees of freedom while the latter are indifferent to the physical nature of the information carriers. The problem of correlating distant reference frames, of which aligning Cartesian axes and synchronizing clocks are important instances, is an example of a task that requires the exchange of unspeakable information and for which it is interesting to determine the fundamental quantum limit of efficiency. There have also been many investigations into the information theory that is appropriate for parties that lack reference frames or that lack correlation between their reference frames, restrictions that result in global and local superselection rules. In the presence of these, quantum unspeakable information becomes a new kind of resource that can be manipulated, depleted, quantified, etcetera. Methods have also been developed to contend with these restrictions using relational encodings, particularly in the context of computation, cryptography, communication, and the manipulation of entanglement. This article reviews the role of reference frames and superselection rules in the theory of quantum information processing.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 5 Oct 2006 03:50:09 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:11:45 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:15:03 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Bartlett", "Stephen D.", "" ], [ "Rudolph", "Terry", "" ], [ "Spekkens", "Robert W.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610031
William Hall
William Hall (University of York)
Compatibility of subsystem states and convex geometry
12 pages APS format, some minor changes made
null
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.032102
null
quant-ph
null
The subsystem compatibility problem, which concerns the question of whether a set of subsystem states are compatible with a state of the entire system, has received much study. Here we attack the problem from a new angle, utilising the ideas of convexity that have been successfully employed against the separability problem. Analogously to an entanglement witness, we introduce the idea of a compatibility witness, and prove a number of properties about these objects. We show that the subsystem compatibility problem can be solved numerically and efficiently using semidefinite programming, and that the numerical results from this solution can be used to extract exact analytic results, an idea which we use to disprove a conjecture about the subsystem problem made by Butterley et al. [Found. Phys. 36 83 (2006)]. Finally, we consider how the ideas can be used to tackle some important variants of the compatibility problem; in particular, the case of identical particles (known as N-representability in the case of fermions) is considered.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:46:22 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:59:10 GMT" } ]
2013-05-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Hall", "William", "", "University of York" ] ]
quant-ph/0610032
Luis L. Sanchez. Soto
L. L. Sanchez-Soto, E. C. Yustas, G. Bjork, and A. B. Klimov
Maximally polarized states for quantum light fields
4 pages, 3 eps-color figures
Phys. Rev. A 76, 043820 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.043820
null
quant-ph
null
The degree of polarization of a quantum state can be defined as its Hilbert-Schmidt distance to the set of unpolarized states. We demonstrate that the states optimizing this degree for a fixed average number of photons $\bar{N}$ present a fairly symmetric, parabolic photon statistics, with a variance scaling as $\bar{N}^2$. Although no standard optical process yields such a statistics, we show that, to an excellent approximation, a highly squeezed vacuum can be considered as maximally polarized.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:28:19 GMT" } ]
2008-07-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Sanchez-Soto", "L. L.", "" ], [ "Yustas", "E. C.", "" ], [ "Bjork", "G.", "" ], [ "Klimov", "A. B.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610033
Nikolai Chuprikov
N. L. Chuprikov
Quantum mechanics and Leggett's principles of macroscopic realism
Latex, 8 pages; I welcome any comments on the paper
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
On the basis of our recent model of a one-dimensional (1D) completed scattering we argue that Leggett's principles of macroscopic realism must and can be extended onto the level of single electrons and atoms. These principles need three quite feasible innovations in quantum mechanics (QM): (1) at the conceptual level, QM must treat a pure time-dependent one-particle state to involve two or more macroscopically distinct alternatives for a particle as a pure {\it combined} one - the intermediate link between a pure {\it elementary} state (indecomposable into macroscopically distinct parts) and statistical mixture; (2) at the mathematical level, QM must provide the presentation of the pure time-dependent combined state as a coherent superposition of macroscopically distinct elementary states (MDESs); (3) at the experimental level, QM must provide for such states two types of measurements - those for observing the interference pattern resulting from the joint action of MDESs, and non-demolishing 'which-way' measurements for scanning the individual properties of MDESs.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:35:58 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:38:05 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:57:23 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:57:02 GMT" }, { "version": "v5", "created": "Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:38:36 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Chuprikov", "N. L.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610034
Atac Imamoglu
K. Hennessy, A. Badolato, M. Winger, D. Gerace, M. Atature, S. Gulde, S. Falt, E. L. Hu, A. Imamoglu
Quantum nature of a strongly-coupled single quantum dot-cavity system
14 pages 4 figures
null
10.1038/nature05586
null
quant-ph
null
Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) studies the interaction between a quantum emitter and a single radiation-field mode. When an atom is in strong coupling with a cavity mode1,2, it is possible to realize key quantum information processing (QIP) tasks, such as controlled coherent coupling and entanglement of distinguishable quantum systems. Realizing these tasks in the solid state is clearly desirable, and coupling semiconductor self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) to monolithic optical cavities is a promising route to this end. However, validating the efficacy of QDs in QIP applications requires confirmation of the quantum nature of the QD-cavity system in the strong coupling regime. Here we find a confirmation by observing quantum correlations in photoluminescence (PL) from a photonic crystal (PC) nanocavity3-5 interacting with one, and only one, QD located precisely at the cavity electric field maximum. When off-resonance, photon emission from the cavity mode and QD excitons is anti-correlated at the level of single quanta, proving that the mode is driven solely by the QD despite an energy mis-match between cavity and excitons. When tuned into resonance, the exciton and photon enter the strong-coupling regime of cavity-QED and the QD lifetime reduces by a factor of 120. The photon stream from the cavity becomes anti-bunched, proving that the coupled exciton/photon system is in the quantum anharmonic regime. Our observations unequivocally show that QIP tasks requiring the quantum nonlinear regime are achievable in the solid state.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:36:21 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hennessy", "K.", "" ], [ "Badolato", "A.", "" ], [ "Winger", "M.", "" ], [ "Gerace", "D.", "" ], [ "Atature", "M.", "" ], [ "Gulde", "S.", "" ], [ "Falt", "S.", "" ], [ "Hu", "E. L.", "" ], [ "Imamoglu", "A.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610035
Bin Wang
B. Wang and L.-M. Duan
Implementation of controlled SWAP gates for quantum fingerprinting and photonic quantum computation
4 pages
null
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.050304
null
quant-ph
null
We propose a scheme to implement quantum controlled SWAP gates by directing single-photon pulses to a two-sided cavity with a single trapped atom. The resultant gates can be used to realize quantum fingerprinting and universal photonic quantum computation. The performance of the scheme is characterized under realistic experimental noise with the requirements well within the reach of the current technology.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 5 Oct 2006 19:12:18 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sun, 8 Oct 2006 20:04:34 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Wang", "B.", "" ], [ "Duan", "L. -M.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610036
Odell Collins
O. A. Collins, S. D. Jenkins, A. Kuzmich, and T. A. B. Kennedy
Multiplexed Memory-Insensitive Quantum Repeaters
5 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in PRL
Physical Review Letters 98, 060502 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.060502
null
quant-ph
null
Long-distance quantum communication via distant pairs of entangled quantum bits (qubits) is the first step towards more secure message transmission and distributed quantum computing. To date, the most promising proposals require quantum repeaters to mitigate the exponential decrease in communication rate due to optical fiber losses. However, these are exquisitely sensitive to the lifetimes of their memory elements. We propose a multiplexing of quantum nodes that should enable the construction of quantum networks that are largely insensitive to the coherence times of the quantum memory elements.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 6 Oct 2006 18:53:57 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:40:01 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Collins", "O. A.", "" ], [ "Jenkins", "S. D.", "" ], [ "Kuzmich", "A.", "" ], [ "Kennedy", "T. A. B.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610037
Ireneusz Pakula
Ireneusz Pakula
Quantum gambling using mesoscopic ring qubits
4 pages, 1 figure, poster during XXX Intern. Conf. of Theoretical Physics, Electron correlations in nano- and microsystems, Ustron 9-14 September 2006. Minor corrections, references added; to appear in physica status solidi b
null
10.1002/pssb.200674643
null
quant-ph
null
Quantum Game Theory provides us with new tools for practising games and some other risk related enterprices like, for example, gambling. The two party gambling protocol presented by Goldenberg {\it et al} is one of the simplest yet still hard to implement applications of Quantum Game Theory. We propose potential physical realisation of the quantum gambling protocol with use of three mesoscopic ring qubits. We point out problems in implementation of such game.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 5 Oct 2006 21:31:36 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:18:06 GMT" } ]
2015-06-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Pakula", "Ireneusz", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610038
Martin Laforest
M. Laforest, D. Simon, J.-C. Boileau, J. Baugh, M. Ditty and R. Laflamme
Using error correction to determine the noise model
10 pages, 3 figures. Added discussion section, improved figures
PRA 75, 012331 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.012331
null
quant-ph
null
Quantum error correcting codes have been shown to have the ability of making quantum information resilient against noise. Here we show that we can use quantum error correcting codes as diagnostics to characterise noise. The experiment is based on a three-bit quantum error correcting code carried out on a three-qubit nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) quantum information processor. Utilizing both engineered and natural noise, the degree of correlations present in the noise affecting a two-qubit subsystem was determined. We measured a correlation factor of c=0.5+/-0.2 using the error correction protocol, and c=0.3+/-0.2 using a standard NMR technique based on coherence pathway selection. Although the error correction method demands precise control, the results demonstrate that the required precision is achievable in the liquid-state NMR setting.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 5 Oct 2006 23:21:02 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:47:07 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Laforest", "M.", "" ], [ "Simon", "D.", "" ], [ "Boileau", "J. -C.", "" ], [ "Baugh", "J.", "" ], [ "Ditty", "M.", "" ], [ "Laflamme", "R.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610039
Marin-Slobodan Tomas
M. S. Tomas
Medium effects on the van der Waals force
6 pages, 4 figures, presented at Brijuni Conference X: Imaging in Space and Time, Brijuni, Croatia, August 28 - September 01, 2006
Phys. Rev. A 75, 012109 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.012109
null
quant-ph
null
We consider the van der Waals interaction between two ground-state atoms embedded in adjacent semi-infinite magnetodielectric media, with emphasis on medium effects on it. We demonstrate that, in this case, at small atom-atom distances the van der Waals interaction is screened by the surrounding media in the same way as in an effective (single) medium. At larger atomic distances, however, its dependence on the material parameters of the system and the positions of the atoms is more complex. We also calculate the Casimir-Polder potential of an atom A arising from a uniform distribution of atoms B in the medium across the interface. Comparison of this potential with the corresponding result deduced from the Casimir force on a thin composite slab in front of a composite semi-infinite medium, both obeying the Clausius-Mossotti relation, suggests a hint on how to improve a well-known formula for the van der Waals potential with respect to the local-field effects.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:34:44 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Tomas", "M. S.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610040
Maarten Van den Nest
M. Van den Nest, H. J. Briegel
Measurement-based quantum computation and undecidable logic
10 pages. Presentation improved. Paper to appear in Found. Phys.; currently published online
null
10.1007/s10701-008-9212-6
null
quant-ph
null
We establish a connection between measurement-based quantum computation and the field of mathematical logic. We show that the computational power of an important class of quantum states called graph states, representing resources for measurement-based quantum computation, is reflected in the expressive power of (classical) formal logic languages defined on the underlying mathematical graphs. In particular, we show that for all graph state resources which can yield a computational speed-up with respect to classical computation, the underlying graphs--describing the quantum correlations of the states--are associated with undecidable logic theories. Here undecidability is to be interpreted in a sense similar to Goedel's incompleteness results, meaning that there exist propositions, expressible in the above classical formal logic, which cannot be proven or disproven.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:34:45 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:00:54 GMT" } ]
2008-03-28T00:00:00
[ [ "Nest", "M. Van den", "" ], [ "Briegel", "H. J.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610041
Jens Timo Neumann
Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt, Jens Timo Neumann, Lawrence S. Schulman
Passage-time distributions from a spin-boson detector model
11 pages, 6 figures; minor changes, references corrected; accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A
Physical Review A 75, 012108 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.012108
null
quant-ph
null
The passage-time distribution for a spread-out quantum particle to traverse a specific region is calculated using a detailed quantum model for the detector involved. That model, developed and investigated in earlier works, is based on the detected particle's enhancement of the coupling between a collection of spins (in a metastable state) and their environment. We treat the continuum limit of the model, under the assumption of the Markov property, and calculate the particle state immediately after the first detection. An explicit example with 15 boson modes shows excellent agreement between the discrete model and the continuum limit. Analytical expressions for the passage-time distribution as well as numerical examples are presented. The precision of the measurement scheme is estimated and its optimization discussed. For slow particles, the precision goes like $E^{-3/4}$, which improves previous $E^{-1}$ estimates, obtained with a quantum clock model.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:59:51 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:21:03 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Hegerfeldt", "Gerhard C.", "" ], [ "Neumann", "Jens Timo", "" ], [ "Schulman", "Lawrence S.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610042
Antony Tambyrajah
Antony L Tambyrajah
Metric perturbation theory of quantum dynamics
null
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
A theory of quantum dynamics based on a discrete structure underlying the space time manifold is developed for single particles. It is shown that at the micro domain the interaction of particles with the underlying discrete structure results in the quantum space time manifold. Regarding the resulting quantum space-time as perturbation from the Lorentz metric it is shown it is possible to discuss the dynamics of particles in the quantum domain.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 6 Oct 2006 15:47:31 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Tambyrajah", "Antony L", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610043
Sandu Popescu
Sandu Popescu
KLM quantum computation with bosonic atoms
3 pages, 1 figure
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.130503
null
quant-ph
null
A Knill-Laflamme-Milburn (KLM) type quantum computation with bosonic neutral atoms or bosonic ions is suggested. Crucially, as opposite to other quantum computation schemes involving atoms (ions), no controlled interactions between atoms (ions) involving their internal levels are required. Versus photonic KLM computation this scheme has the advantage that single atom (ion) sources are more natural than single photon sources, and single atom (ion) detectors are far more efficient than single photon ones.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 6 Oct 2006 15:57:24 GMT" } ]
2013-05-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Popescu", "Sandu", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610044
Elias Griffith
E. J. Griffith, C. D. Hill, J. F. Ralph, H. M. Wiseman, Kurt Jacobs
Rapid state purification protocols for a Cooper pair box
14 pages, 14 figures. v2: Revised version after referee comments. Accepted for publication by Physical Review B
Phys. Rev. B 75, 014511 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.75.014511
null
quant-ph cond-mat.supr-con
null
We propose techniques for implementing two different rapid state purification schemes, within the constraints present in a superconducting charge qubit system. Both schemes use a continuous measurement of charge (z) measurements, and seek to minimize the time required to purify the conditional state. Our methods are designed to make the purification process relatively insensitive to rotations about the x-axis, due to the Josephson tunnelling Hamiltonian. The first proposed method, based on the scheme of Jacobs [Phys. Rev. A 67, 030301(R) (2003)] uses the measurement results to control bias (z) pulses so as to rotate the Bloch vector onto the x-axis of the Bloch sphere. The second proposed method, based on the scheme of Wiseman and Ralph [New J. Phys. 8, 90 (2006)] uses a simple feedback protocol which tightly rotates the Bloch vector about an axis almost parallel with the measurement axis. We compare the performance of these and other techniques by a number of different measures.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:35:16 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:25:44 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Griffith", "E. J.", "" ], [ "Hill", "C. D.", "" ], [ "Ralph", "J. F.", "" ], [ "Wiseman", "H. M.", "" ], [ "Jacobs", "Kurt", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610045
Wesley B. Cardoso
Iara P. de Queiros, W. B. Cardoso, and N. G. de Almeida
Superposition of coherent states prepared in one mode of a dissipative bimodal cavity
7 pages, 1 figure, submitted to J. Phys. B
J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 40 (2007) 21-27
10.1088/0953-4075/40/1/003
null
quant-ph
null
We solve the problem of the temporal evolution of one of two-modes embedded in a same dissipative environment and investigate the role of the losses after the preparation of a coherent state in only one of the two modes. Based on current cavity QED technology, we present a calculation of the fidelity of a superposition of coherent states engineered in a bimodal high-Q cavity. Our calculation demonstrates that the engineered superposition retains coherence for large times when the mean photon number of the prepared mode is on the order of unity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:39:56 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "de Queiros", "Iara P.", "" ], [ "Cardoso", "W. B.", "" ], [ "de Almeida", "N. G.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610046
Mark P. Davidson
Mark P. Davidson
Stochastic Models of Quantum Mechanics - A Perspective
15 pages. To appear in Proceedings of Foundations of Probability and Physics, held at Vaxjo University, Sweden, June 4-9, 2006. Published by the American Institute of Physics
null
10.1063/1.2713450
null
quant-ph
null
A subjective survey of stochastic models of quantum mechanics is given along with a discussion of some key radiative processes, the clues they offer, and the difficulties they pose for this program. An electromagnetic basis for deriving quantum mechanics is advocated, and various possibilities are considered. It is argued that only non-local or non-causal theories are likely to be a successful basis for such a derivation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 6 Oct 2006 22:56:34 GMT" } ]
2015-06-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Davidson", "Mark P.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610047
Daegene Song
Daegene Song
Unsolvability of the Halting Problem in Quantum Dynamics
4 pages, 3 figures
Int. J. Theor. Phys. 47, 1785 (2008)
10.1007/s10773-007-9621-x
null
quant-ph
null
It is shown that the halting problem cannot be solved consistently in both the Schrodinger and Heisenberg pictures of quantum dynamics. The existence of the halting machine, which is assumed from quantum theory, leads into a contradiction when we consider the case when the observer's reference frame is the system that is to be evolved in both pictures. We then show that in order to include the evolution of observer's reference frame in a physically sensible way, the Heisenberg picture with time going backwards yields a correct description.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Sat, 7 Oct 2006 05:49:06 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Song", "Daegene", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610048
Joonwoo Bae
Joonwoo Bae and Antonio Acin
Key distillation from quantum channels using two-way communication protocols
21 pages
Phys. Rev. A 75, 012334 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.012334
null
quant-ph
null
We provide a general formalism to characterize the cryptographic properties of quantum channels in the realistic scenario where the two honest parties employ prepare and measure protocols and the known two-way communication reconciliation techniques. We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition to distill a secret key using this type of schemes for Pauli qubit channels and generalized Pauli channels in higher dimension. Our results can be applied to standard protocols such as BB84 or six-state, giving a critical error rate of 20% and 27.6%, respectively. We explore several possibilities to enlarge these bounds, without any improvement. These results suggest that there may exist weakly entangling channels useless for key distribution using prepare and measure schemes.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Oct 2006 17:36:42 GMT" } ]
2010-09-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Bae", "Joonwoo", "" ], [ "Acin", "Antonio", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610049
Nilanjana Datta
Nilanjana Datta and Tony Dorlas
Coding Theorem for a Class of Quantum Channels with Long-Term Memory
Some typos corrected
null
10.1088/1751-8113/40/28/S20
null
quant-ph
null
In this paper we consider the transmission of classical information through a class of quantum channels with long-term memory, which are given by convex combinations of product channels. Hence, the memory of such channels is given by a Markov chain which is aperiodic but not irreducible. We prove the coding theorem and weak converse for this class of channels. The main techniques that we employ, are a quantum version of Feinstein's Fundamental Lemma and a generalization of Helstrom's Theorem.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Sat, 7 Oct 2006 15:40:31 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:56:40 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Datta", "Nilanjana", "" ], [ "Dorlas", "Tony", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610050
Da-Chuang Li
Da-Chuang Li, Zhuo-Liang Cao
Teleportation of two-particle entangled state via cluster state
six pages, no figure
Commun. Theor. Phys. 47, 464 (2007)
10.1088/0253-6102/47/3/017
null
quant-ph
null
We present two schemes for teleporting an unknown two-particle entangled state from a sender (Alice) to a receiver (Bob) via a four-particle entangled cluster state. As it is shown, the unknown two-particle entangled state can be teleported perfectly, and the successful possibilities and fidelities of the two schemes both reach unit.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Sun, 8 Oct 2006 08:46:59 GMT" } ]
2015-06-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Li", "Da-Chuang", "" ], [ "Cao", "Zhuo-Liang", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610051
Philip Davies
Philip Davies
A new link between Boson and Fermion algebras: an alternative to supersymmetry
null
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
In this paper we describe a new family of algebras which in the case of n = 2 reduces to the Fermion algebra and in the limiting case of n tends to infinity reduces to the Boson algebra. These generalized algebras describe particles which obey a generalized exclusion principle, limiting state occupation to (n-1) and obeying a generalized particle statistics.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:59:47 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Davies", "Philip", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610052
Andrei Khrennikov
Andrei Khrennikov, Guillaume Adenier, Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
What are Quantum Fluctuations? Round Table of the Third Conference on Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations
Proceedings of Conference Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations-3, American Institute of Physics, Ser. Conference Proceedings, Melville, NY, 2006, vol. 810
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
This is a transcript of the round table that took place during the conference Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations - 3, June 2005, Vaxjo, Sweden. There are presented opinions of leading experts in quantum foundations on such fundamental problems as the origin of quantum fluctuations and completeness of quantum mechanics.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Sun, 8 Oct 2006 18:21:48 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Khrennikov", "Andrei", "" ], [ "Adenier", "Guillaume", "" ], [ "Nieuwenhuizen", "Theo M.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610053
Denis Brazhnikov V.
D.V. Brazhnikov, A.V. Taichenachev, A.M. Tumaikin, V.I. Yudin, S.A. Zibrov, Ya.O. Dudin, V.V. Vasil'ev, V.L. Velichansky
Features of Magneto-Optical Resonances in an Elliptically Polarized Traveling Light Wave
5 pages
D.V. Brazhnikov, A.V. Taichenachev, A.M. Tumaikin, V.I. Yudin, S.A. Zibrov, Ya.O. Dudin, V.V. Vasil'ev, V.L. Velichansky, JETP Lett. 83(2), 64-68 (2006)
10.1134/S0021364006020044
null
quant-ph
null
The parameters of nonlinear absorption magneto-optical resonances in the Hanle configuration have been studied as functions of the ellipticity of a traveling light wave. It has been found that these parameters (amplitude, width, and amplitude-to-width ratio) depend strongly on the polarization of the light wave. In particular, the resonance amplitude can increase by more than an order of magnitude when the polarization changes from linear to optimal elliptic. It has been shown that this effect is associated with the Doppler frequency shift for atoms in a gas. The theoretical results have been corroborated in experiments in Rb vapor.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Oct 2006 05:42:15 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Brazhnikov", "D. V.", "" ], [ "Taichenachev", "A. V.", "" ], [ "Tumaikin", "A. M.", "" ], [ "Yudin", "V. I.", "" ], [ "Zibrov", "S. A.", "" ], [ "Dudin", "Ya. O.", "" ], [ "Vasil'ev", "V. V.", "" ], [ "Velichansky", "V. L.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610054
S N Sandhya
S N Sandhya
Effect of Atomic Coherence on Absorption in Four-level Systems: an Analytical study
15 pages 12 figures
null
10.1088/0953-4075/40/5/002
null
quant-ph
null
Absorption profile of a four-level ladder atomic system interacting with three driving fields is studied perturbatively and analytical results are presented. Numerical results where the driving field strengths are treated upto all orders are presented. The absorption features is studied in two regimes, i) the weak middle transition coupling, i.e. $\Omega_2 << \Omega_{1,3}$ and ii) the strong middle transition coupling $\Omega_2 >>\Omega_{1,3}$. In case i), it is shown that the ground state absorption and the saturation characteristics of the population of level 2 reveal deviation due to the presence of upper level couplings. In particular, the saturation curve for the population of level 2 shows a dip for $\Omega_1 = \Omega_3$. While the populations of levels 3 and 4 show a maxima when this resonance condition is satisfied. Thus the resonance condition provides a criterion for maximally populating the upper levels. A second order perturbation calculation reveals the nature of this minima (maxima). In the second case, I report two important features: a) Filtering of the Aulter-Townes doublet in the three-peak absorption profile of the ground state, which is achieved by detuning only the upper most coupling field, and b) control of line-width by controlling the strength of the upper coupling fields. This filtering technique coupled with the control of linewidth could prove to be very useful for high resolution studies.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Oct 2006 06:28:04 GMT" } ]
2015-06-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Sandhya", "S N", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610055
Francesco Plastina
Tony J. G. Apollaro and Francesco Plastina
Entanglement localization by a single defect in a spin chain
null
Phys. Rev. A 74, 062316 (2006).
10.1103/PhysRevA.74.062316
null
quant-ph
null
We discuss the effect of a single diagonal defect on both the static and dynamical properties of entanglement in a spin chain. We show that entanglement localizes at the defect and discuss its localization length, arguing that this can be used as a mean to store entanglement. We also show that the impurity site can behave as an entanglement mirror and characterize the bouncing process in terms of reflection and transmission coefficients.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Oct 2006 08:18:53 GMT" } ]
2015-06-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Apollaro", "Tony J. G.", "" ], [ "Plastina", "Francesco", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610056
Etienne Brion
E. Brion, L.H. Pedersen and K. Molmer
Adiabatic Elimination in a Lambda System
14 pages, 3 figures
null
10.1088/1751-8113/40/5/011
null
quant-ph
null
This paper deals with different ways to extract the effective two-dimensional lower level dynamics of a lambda system excited by off-resonant laser beams. We present a commonly used procedure for elimination of the upper level, and we show that it may lead to ambiguous results. To overcome this problem and better understand the applicability conditions of this scheme, we review two rigorous methods which allow us both to derive an unambiguous effective two-level Hamiltonian of the system and to quantify the accuracy of the approximation achieved: the first one relies on the exact solution of the Schrodinger equation, while the second one resorts to the Green's function formalism and the Feshbach projection operator technique.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Oct 2006 10:47:06 GMT" } ]
2015-06-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Brion", "E.", "" ], [ "Pedersen", "L. H.", "" ], [ "Molmer", "K.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610057
Gian Paolo Beretta
Gian Paolo Beretta
The Hatsopoulos-Gyftopoulos resolution of the Schroedinger-Park paradox about the concept of "state" in quantum statistical mechanics
RevTeX4, 7 pages, corrected a paragraph and added an example at page 3, to appear in Mod. Phys. Lett. A
Modern Physics Letters A, Vol.21, pp.2799-2811 (2006)
10.1142/S0217732306021840
null
quant-ph
null
A seldom recognized fundamental difficulty undermines the concept of individual ``state'' in the present formulations of quantum statistical mechanics (and in its quantum information theory interpretation as well). The difficulty is an unavoidable consequence of an almost forgotten corollary proved by E. Schroedinger in 1936 and perused by J.L. Park, Am. J. Phys., Vol. 36, 211 (1968). To resolve it, we must either reject as unsound the concept of state, or else undertake a serious reformulation of quantum theory and the role of statistics. We restate the difficulty and discuss a possible resolution proposed in 1976 by G.N. Hatsopoulos and E.P. Gyftopoulos, Found. Phys., Vol. 6, 15, 127, 439, 561 (1976).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Oct 2006 11:36:16 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:00:12 GMT" } ]
2015-06-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Beretta", "Gian Paolo", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610058
Paolo Perinotti Dr.
Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano, Paolo Perinotti
Optimal data processing for quantum measurements
4 pages, 1 figure, revtex4. Updated figure
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 020403 (2007).
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.020403
null
quant-ph
null
We consider the general measurement scenario in which the ensemble average of an operator is determined via suitable data-processing of the outcomes of a quantum measurement described by a POVM. We determine the optimal processing that minimizes the statistical error of the estimation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Oct 2006 11:41:47 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:15:14 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "D'Ariano", "Giacomo Mauro", "" ], [ "Perinotti", "Paolo", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610059
Charles Hill
Charles Hill
Robust CNOT gates from almost any interaction
5 pages, 2 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.180501
null
quant-ph
null
There are many cases where the interaction between two qubits is not precisely known, but single qubit operations are available. In this paper we show how, regardless of an incomplete knowledge of the strength or form of the interaction between two qubits, it is often possible to construct a CNOT gate which has arbitrarily high fidelity. In particular, we show that oscillations in the strength of the exchange interaction in solid state Si and Ge structures are correctable.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:08:32 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:37:27 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hill", "Charles", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610060
Zhengfeng Ji
Zhengfeng Ji, Guoming Wang, Runyao Duan, Yuan Feng and Mingsheng Ying
Parameter estimation of quantum channels
Final Version
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, Vol. 54, No. 11, 5172-5185, 2008
10.1109/TIT.2008.929940
null
quant-ph
null
The efficiency of parameter estimation of quantum channels is studied in this paper. We introduce the concept of programmable parameters to the theory of estimation. It is found that programmable parameters obey the standard quantum limit strictly; hence no speedup is possible in its estimation. We also construct a class of non-unitary quantum channels whose parameter can be estimated in a way that the standard quantum limit is broken. The study of estimation of general quantum channels also enables an investigation of the effect of noises on quantum estimation.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:11:12 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:04:06 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:06:27 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:41:39 GMT" } ]
2010-03-17T00:00:00
[ [ "Ji", "Zhengfeng", "" ], [ "Wang", "Guoming", "" ], [ "Duan", "Runyao", "" ], [ "Feng", "Yuan", "" ], [ "Ying", "Mingsheng", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610061
Thomas Schulte-Herbr\"uggen
T. Schulte-Herbrueggen and A. Spoerl
Which Quantum Evolutions Can Be Reversed by Local Unitary Operations? Algebraic Classification and Gradient-Flow-Based Numerical Checks
19 pages, 7 figures; comments welcome
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
Generalising in the sense of Hahn's spin echo, we completely characterise those unitary propagators of effective multi-qubit interactions that can be inverted solely by {\em local} unitary operations on $n$ qubits (spins-$\tfrac{1}{2}$). The subset of $U\in \mathbf{SU}(2^n)$ satisfying $U^{-1}=K_1 U K_2$ with pairs of local unitaries $K_1, K_2\in\mathbf{SU}(2)^{\otimes n}$ comprises two classes: in type-I, $K_1$ and $K_2$ are inverse to one another, while in type-II they are not. {Type-I} consists of one-parameter groups that can jointly be inverted for all times $t\in\R{}$ because their Hamiltonian generators satisfy $K H K^{-1} = \Ad K (H) = -H$. As all the Hamiltonians generating locally invertible unitaries of type-I are spanned by the eigenspace associated to the eigenvalue -1 of the {\em local} conjugation map $\Ad K$, this eigenspace can be given in closed algebraic form. The relation to the root space decomposition of $\mathfrak{sl}(N,\C{})$ is pointed out. Special cases of type-I invertible Hamiltonians are of $p$-quantum order and are analysed by the transformation properties of spherical tensors of order $p$. Effective multi-qubit interaction Hamiltonians are characterised via the graphs of their coupling topology. {Type-II} consists of pointwise locally invertible propagators, part of which can be classified according to the symmetries of their matrix representations. Moreover, we show gradient flows for numerically solving the decision problem whether a propagator is type-I or type-II invertible or not by driving the least-squares distance $\norm{K_1 e^{-itH} K_2 - e^{+itH}}^2_2$ to zero.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:17:55 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Schulte-Herbrueggen", "T.", "" ], [ "Spoerl", "A.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610062
Alessandro Villar
A. S. Villar, M. Martinelli, C. Fabre, and P. Nussenzveig
Direct Production of Tripartite Pump-Signal-Idler Entanglement in the Above-Threshold Optical Parametric Oscillator
4 pages, 3 figures
Phys Rev Lett 97,140504 (2006)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.140504
null
quant-ph
null
We calculate the quantum correlations existing among the three output fields (pump, signal, and idler) of a triply resonant non-degenerate Optical Parametric Oscillator operating above threshold. By applying the standard criteria [P. van Loock and A. Furusawa, Phys. Rev. A 67, 052315 (2003)], we show that strong tripartite continuous-variable entanglement is present in this well-known and simple system. Furthermore, since the entanglement is generated directly from a nonlinear process, the three entangled fields can have very different frequencies, opening the way for multicolored quantum information networks.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 9 Oct 2006 17:00:17 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Villar", "A. S.", "" ], [ "Martinelli", "M.", "" ], [ "Fabre", "C.", "" ], [ "Nussenzveig", "P.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610063
Panos Aliferis
Panos Aliferis and Andrew W. Cross
Subsystem fault tolerance with the Bacon-Shor code
4 pages, 2 figures. v3: small revisions, appendix moved to chapter 5 in quant-ph/0703230
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007) 220502
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.220502
null
quant-ph
null
We discuss how the presence of gauge sub-systems in the Bacon-Shor code [D. Bacon, Phys. Rev. A 73, 012340 (2006)] leads to remarkably simple and efficient methods for fault-tolerant error correction (FTEC). Most notably, FTEC does not require entangled ancillary states and it can be implemented with nearest-neighbor two-qubit measurements. By using these methods, we prove a lower bound on the quantum accuracy threshold, 1.94 \times 10^{-4} for adversarial stochastic noise, that improves previous lower bounds by nearly an order of magnitude.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:40:12 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:30:24 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:48:54 GMT" } ]
2007-06-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Aliferis", "Panos", "" ], [ "Cross", "Andrew W.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610064
Ashton Bradley
A. S. Bradley, M. K. Olsen, S. A. Haine and J. J. Hope
Measuring the quantum statistics of an atom laser beam
4 pages, 3 figures
Phys. Rev. A 76, 033603 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.033603
null
quant-ph
null
We propose and analyse a scheme for measuring the quadrature statistics of an atom laser beam using extant optical homodyning and Raman atom laser techniques. Reversal of the normal Raman atom laser outcoupling scheme is used to map the quantum statistics of an incoupled beam to an optical probe beam. A multimode model of the spatial propagation dynamics shows that the Raman incoupler gives a clear signal of de Broglie wave quadrature squeezing for both pulsed and continuous inputs. Finally, we show that experimental realisations of the scheme may be tested with existing methods via measurements of Glauber's intensity correlation function.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:16:33 GMT" } ]
2008-05-19T00:00:00
[ [ "Bradley", "A. S.", "" ], [ "Olsen", "M. K.", "" ], [ "Haine", "S. A.", "" ], [ "Hope", "J. J.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610065
Francois Dubin
Francois Dubin, Daniel Rotter, Manas Mukherjee, Carlos Russo, Juergen Eschner, and Rainer Blatt
Photon correlation vs interference of single-atom fluorescence in a half-cavity
4 pages, 3 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.183003
null
quant-ph
null
Photon correlations are investigated for a single laser-excited ion trapped in front of a mirror. Varying the relative distance between the ion and the mirror, photon correlation statistics can be tuned smoothly from an antibunching minimum to a bunching-like maximum. Our analysis concerns the non-Markovian regime of the ion-mirror interaction and reveals the field establishment in a half-cavity interferometer.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:02:39 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Dubin", "Francois", "" ], [ "Rotter", "Daniel", "" ], [ "Mukherjee", "Manas", "" ], [ "Russo", "Carlos", "" ], [ "Eschner", "Juergen", "" ], [ "Blatt", "Rainer", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610066
Olivier Brunet
Olivier Brunet (Leibniz - IMAG)
A priori Knowledge and the Kochen-Specker Theorem
null
null
10.1016/j.physleta.2006.12.062
null
quant-ph
null
We introduce and formalize a notion of "a priori knowledge" about a quantum system, and show some properties about this form of knowledge. Finally, we show that the Kochen-Specker theorem follows directly from this study. This version is a draft version, the bibliography in particular is extremely scarce. Comments welcome.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:08:28 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:45:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:13:39 GMT" } ]
2015-06-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Brunet", "Olivier", "", "Leibniz - IMAG" ] ]
quant-ph/0610067
Fam Le Kien
Fam Le Kien, S. Dutta Gupta, and K. Hakuta
Optical excitation spectrum of an atom in a surface-induced potential
null
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
We study the optical excitation spectrum of an atom in the vicinity of a dielectric surface. We calculate the rates of the total scattering and the scattering into the evanescent modes. With a proper assessment of the limitations, we demonstrate the portability of the flat-surface results to an experimental situation with a nanofiber. The effect of the surface-induced potential on the excitation spectrum for free-to-bound transitions is shown to be weak. On the contrary, the effect for bound-to-bound transitions is significant leading to a large excitation linewidth, a substantial negative shift of the peak position, and a strong long tail on the negative side and a small short tail on the positive side of the field--atom frequency detuning.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:27:15 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Kien", "Fam Le", "" ], [ "Gupta", "S. Dutta", "" ], [ "Hakuta", "K.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610068
Fam Le Kien
Fam Le Kien and K. Hakuta
Spontaneous radiative decay of translational levels of an atom near a dielectric surface
null
null
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.013423
null
quant-ph
null
We study spontaneous radiative decay of translational levels of an atom in the vicinity of a semi-infinite dielectric. We systematically derive the microscopic dynamical equations for the spontaneous decay process. We calculate analytically and numerically the radiative linewidths and the spontaneous transition rates for the translational levels. The roles of the interference between the emitted and reflected fields and of the transmission into the evanescent modes are clearly identified. Our numerical calculations for the silica--cesium interaction show that the radiative linewidths of the bound excited levels with large enough but not too large vibrational quantum numbers are moderately enhanced by the emission into the evanescent modes and those for the deep bound levels are substantially reduced by the surface-induced red shift of the transition frequency.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:45:55 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Kien", "Fam Le", "" ], [ "Hakuta", "K.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610069
Shao-Ming Fei
Bao-Zhi Sun, Shao-Ming Fei
Bell Inequalities Classifying Bi-separable Three-qubit States
8 pages
Phys. Rev. A 74(2006)032335
10.1103/PhysRevA.74.032335
null
quant-ph
null
We present a set of Bell inequalities that gives rise to a finer classification of the entanglement for tripartite systems. These inequalities distinguish three possible bi-separable entanglements for three-qubit states. The three Bell operators we employed constitute an external sphere of the separable cube.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:21:37 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Sun", "Bao-Zhi", "" ], [ "Fei", "Shao-Ming", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610070
Xiaoyu Chen
Xiao-yu Chen, Li-zhen Jiang, Ji-wu Chen
Simultaneous amplification and non-symmetric amplitude damping of two-mode Gaussian state
6 pages, 2 figures
null
10.1016/j.physleta.2007.02.012
null
quant-ph
null
The evolution of two-mode Gaussian state under symmetric amplification, non-symmetric damping and thermal noise is studied. The time dependent solution of the state characteristic function is obtained. The separability criterions are given for the final state of weak amplification as well as strong amplification.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:29:11 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Chen", "Xiao-yu", "" ], [ "Jiang", "Li-zhen", "" ], [ "Chen", "Ji-wu", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610071
Yvan Sortais
Y.R.P. Sortais, H. Marion, C. Tuchendler, A.M. Lance, M. Lamare, P. Fournet, C. Armellin, R. Mercier, G. Messin, A. Browaeys and P. Grangier
Diffraction limited optics for single atom manipulation
8 pages, 9 figures; typos corrected and references added
Phys. Rev. A 75, 013406 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.013406
null
quant-ph
null
We present an optical system designed to capture and observe a single neutral atom in an optical dipole trap, created by focussing a laser beam using a large numerical aperture N.A.=0.5 aspheric lens. We experimentally evaluate the performance of the optical system and show that it is diffraction limited over a broad spectral range (~ 200 nm) with a large transverse field (+/- 25 microns). The optical tweezer created at the focal point of the lens is able to trap single atoms of 87Rb and to detect them individually with a large collection efficiency. We measure the oscillation frequency of the atom in the dipole trap, and use this value as an independent determination of the waist of the optical tweezer. Finally, we produce with the same lens two dipole traps separated by 2.2 microns and show that the imaging system can resolve the two atoms.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:37:15 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:22:54 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Sortais", "Y. R. P.", "" ], [ "Marion", "H.", "" ], [ "Tuchendler", "C.", "" ], [ "Lance", "A. M.", "" ], [ "Lamare", "M.", "" ], [ "Fournet", "P.", "" ], [ "Armellin", "C.", "" ], [ "Mercier", "R.", "" ], [ "Messin", "G.", "" ], [ "Browaeys", "A.", "" ], [ "Grangier", "P.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610072
Won-Ho Kye
Won-Ho Kye
Non-deterministic Two-Way Quantum Key Distribution using Coherent States
4 pages, 2 figures; Protocol and Figure 1 updated
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
We propose a non-deterministic two-way quantum key distribution in which the quantum correlation is established by transmitting the randomly polarized photon. We analyze the security of the proposed quantum key distribution against photon number splitting, impersonation, and Trojan horse attack and quantify the security bound against mean photon number of the coherent state pulse. Finally, we remark the characteristic features of the protocol.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:11:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:36:13 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:05:47 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Tue, 6 Mar 2007 14:55:17 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Kye", "Won-Ho", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610073
Igor B. Mekhov
Igor B. Mekhov, Christoph Maschler, Helmut Ritsch
Cavity enhanced light scattering in optical lattices to probe atomic quantum statistics
4 pages, 3 figures, to published in Phys. Rev. Lett. (March 2007)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 100402 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.100402
null
quant-ph physics.atom-ph physics.optics
null
Different quantum states of atoms in optical lattices can be nondestructively monitored by off-resonant collective light scattering into a cavity. Angle resolved measurements of photon number and variance give information about atom-number fluctuations and pair correlations without single-site access. Observation at angles of diffraction minima provides information on quantum fluctuations insensitive to classical noise. For transverse probing, no photon is scattered into a cavity from a Mott insulator phase, while the photon number is proportional to the atom number for a superfluid.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:32:15 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:27:08 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Mekhov", "Igor B.", "" ], [ "Maschler", "Christoph", "" ], [ "Ritsch", "Helmut", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610074
Gregory Hutchinson
G. D. Hutchinson, C. A. Holmes, T. M. Stace, T. P. Spiller, G. J. Milburn, S. D. Barrett, D. G. Hasko, and D. A. Williams
A Model for an Irreversible Bias Current in the Superconducting Qubit Measurement Process
42 pages and 7 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevA.74.062302
null
quant-ph
null
The superconducting charge-phase `Quantronium' qubit is considered in order to develop a model for the measurement process used in the experiment of Vion et. al. [Science 296 886 (2002)]. For this model we propose a method for including the bias current in the read-out process in a fundamentally irreversible way, which to first order, is approximated by the Josephson junction tilted-washboard potential phenomenology. The decohering bias current is introduced in the form of a Lindblad operator and the Wigner function for the current biased read-out Josephson junction is derived and analyzed. During the read-out current pulse used in the Quantronium experiment we find that the coherence of the qubit initially prepared in a symmetric superposition state is lost at a time of 0.2 nanoseconds after the bias current pulse has been applied. A timescale which is much shorter than the experimental readout time. Additionally we look at the effect of Johnson-Nyquist noise with zero mean from the current source during the qubit manipulation and show that the decoherence due to the irreversible bias current description is an order of magnitude smaller than that found through adding noise to the reversible tilted washboard potential model. Our irreversible bias current model is also applicable to the persistent current based qubits where the state is measured according to its flux via a small inductance direct current superconducting quantum interference device (DC-SQUID).
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:34:51 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Hutchinson", "G. D.", "" ], [ "Holmes", "C. A.", "" ], [ "Stace", "T. M.", "" ], [ "Spiller", "T. P.", "" ], [ "Milburn", "G. J.", "" ], [ "Barrett", "S. D.", "" ], [ "Hasko", "D. G.", "" ], [ "Williams", "D. A.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610075
Andrzej Deloff
A. Deloff
Quarkonium bound-state problem in momentum space revisited
Elsevier, 16 pages, no figures
AnnalsPhys.322:2315-2326,2007
10.1016/j.aop.2006.10.004
null
quant-ph hep-ph
null
A semi-spectral Chebyshev method for solving numerically singular integral equations is presented and applied in the quarkonium bound-state problem in momentum space. The integrals containing both, logarithmic and Cauchy singular kernels, can be evaluated without subtractions by dedicated automatic quadratures. By introducing a Chebyshev mesh and using the Nystrom algorithm the singular integral equation is converted into an algebraic eigenvalue problem that can be solved by standard methods. The proposed scheme is very simple to use, is easy in programming and highly accurate.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:00:38 GMT" } ]
2016-09-08T00:00:00
[ [ "Deloff", "A.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610076
Ariel Caticha
Ariel Caticha
From Objective Amplitudes to Bayesian Probabilities
10 pages, 2 figures. Invited paper presented at the International Conference on Foundations of Probability and Physics - 4 (Vaxjo University, Sweden, 2006). The various versions reflect my attempts to include the figures in the main body of the paper
null
10.1063/1.2713447
null
quant-ph
null
We review the Consistent Amplitude approach to Quantum Theory and argue that quantum probabilities are explicitly Bayesian. In this approach amplitudes are tools for inference. They codify objective information about how complicated experimental setups are put together from simpler ones. Thus, probabilities may be partially subjective but the amplitudes are not.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:55:52 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:59:34 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:54:44 GMT" } ]
2015-06-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Caticha", "Ariel", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610077
Peter Morgan
Peter Morgan
Displacement deformed quantum fields
Relies on quant-ph/0512190. 12 pages. 2 figures
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
A displacement operator d_\zeta is introduced, verifying commutation relations [d_\zeta, a_f^\dagger]=[d_\zeta, a_f]=\zeta(f)d_\zeta with field creation and annihilation operators that verify [a_f,a_g]=0, [a_f,a_g^\dagger]=(g,f), as usual. f and g are test functions, \zeta is a Poincare invariant real-valued function on the test function space, and (g,f) is a Poincare invariant Hermitian inner product. The *-algebra generated by all these operators, and a state defined on it, nontrivially extends the *-algebra of creation and annihilation operators and its Fock space representation. If the usual requirement for linearity is weakened, as suggested in quant-ph/0512190, we obtain a deformation of the free quantum field.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:03:12 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Morgan", "Peter", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610078
Enrique Solano
C.E. Lopez, H. Christ, J.C. Retamal, and E. Solano
Effective Quantum Dynamics of Interacting Systems with Inhomogeneous Coupling
9 pages and 10 figures, new version, accepted in Physical Review A
Phys. Rev. A 75, 033818 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.033818
null
quant-ph cond-mat.mes-hall
null
We study the quantum dynamics of a single mode/particle interacting inhomogeneously with a large number of particles and introduce an effective approach to find the accessible Hilbert space where the dynamics takes place. Two relevant examples are given: the inhomogeneous Tavis-Cummings model (e.g., N atomic qubits coupled to a single cavity mode, or to a motional mode in trapped ions) and the inhomogeneous coupling of an electron spin to N nuclear spins in a quantum dot.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:31:44 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:31:43 GMT" } ]
2015-06-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Lopez", "C. E.", "" ], [ "Christ", "H.", "" ], [ "Retamal", "J. C.", "" ], [ "Solano", "E.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610079
P. Narayana Swamy
P. Narayana Swamy
Generalized Heisenberg relation and Quantum Harmonic Oscillators
10 pages, LaTeX
null
10.1142/S0217751X06034458
null
quant-ph
null
We study the consequences of the generalized Heisenberg uncertainty relation which admits a minimal uncertainty in length such as the case in a theory of quantum gravity. In particular, the theory of quantum harmonic oscillators arising from such a generalized uncertainty relation is examined. We demonstrate that all the standard properties of the quantum harmonic oscillators prevail when we employ a generalized momentum. We also show that quantum electrodynamics and coherent photon states can be described in the familiar standard manner despite the generalized uncertainty principle.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:39:51 GMT" } ]
2015-06-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Swamy", "P. Narayana", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610080
Jean-Pierre Gazeau
Jean-Pierre Gazeau (APC), Eric Huguet (APC), Marc Lachi\`eze-Rey (APC), Jacques Renaud (APC)
Fuzzy spheres from inequivalent coherent states quantizations
20 pages
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 40 (2007) 10225-10249
10.1088/1751-8113/40/33/018
null
quant-ph
null
We present a new procedure which allows a coherent state (CS) quantization of any set with a measure. It is manifest through the replacement of classical observables by CS quantum observables, which acts on a Hilbert space of prescribed dimension $N$. The algebra of CS quantum observables has the finite dimension $N^2$. The application to the 2-sphere provides a family of inequivalent CS quantizations, based on the spin spherical harmonics (the CS quantization from usual spherical harmonics appears to give a trivial issue for the cartesian coordinates). We compare these CS quantizations to the usual (Madore) construction of the fuzzy sphere. The difference allows us to consider our procedures as the constructions of new type of fuzzy spheres. The very general character of our method suggests applications to construct fuzzy versions of a variety of sets.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:59:16 GMT" } ]
2012-02-27T00:00:00
[ [ "Gazeau", "Jean-Pierre", "", "APC" ], [ "Huguet", "Eric", "", "APC" ], [ "Lachièze-Rey", "Marc", "", "APC" ], [ "Renaud", "Jacques", "", "APC" ] ]
quant-ph/0610081
George Svetlichny
George Svetlichny
Teleporting a qubit a la Everett
3 new references and related remarks. 7 pages
null
null
null
quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
If both Alice and Bob have access to a two-qubit "background state" then, by simulating Everett's many worlds interpretation of measurement, Alice can teleport a qubit to Bob, each using fixed unitaries. The Everett picture unifies unitaries, measurements, and classical communication into just unitaries, provided there are background states shared by all parties. We review some of the literature on this theme and point out an additional fact: If Bob has access to only one of the background qubits, teleportation is still possible by Alice sending Bob one classical bit of information gained from a measurement of the other qubit.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:28:16 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:55:28 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:07:19 GMT" } ]
2013-03-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Svetlichny", "George", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610082
Robert Raussendorf
Robert Raussendorf and Jim Harrington
Fault-tolerant quantum computation with high threshold in two dimensions
4 pages, 4 figures; v2: A single 2D layer of qubits (simple square lattice) with nearest-neighbor translation-invariant Ising interaction suffices. Slightly improved threshold
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 190504 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.190504
LA-UR-06-7158
quant-ph
null
We present a scheme of fault-tolerant quantum computation for a local architecture in two spatial dimensions. The error threshold is 0.75% for each source in an error model with preparation, gate, storage and measurement errors.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:12:00 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 14 May 2007 18:30:24 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Raussendorf", "Robert", "" ], [ "Harrington", "Jim", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610083
Mang Feng
M. Feng, G.J. Dong and B. Hu
The readout of the fullerene-based quantum computing by a scanning tunneling microscope
RevTex file, 3 figures. To appear in New Journal of Physics
null
10.1088/1367-2630/8/10/252
null
quant-ph
null
We consider to detect the electron spin of a doped atom, i.e., a nitrogen or a phosphorus, caged in a fullerene by currently available technique of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), which actually corresponds to the readout of a qubit in the fullerene-based quantum computing. Under the conditions of polarized STM current and Coulomb blockade, we investigate the tunneling matrix elements involving the exchange coupling between the tunneling polarized electrons and the encapsulated polarized electron, and calculate the variation of the tunneling current with respect to different orientations of the encapsulated electron spin. The experimental feasibility of our scheme is discussed under the consideration of some imperfect factors.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:01:04 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Feng", "M.", "" ], [ "Dong", "G. J.", "" ], [ "Hu", "B.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610084
Adrian Paul Flitney
Adrian P. Flitney and Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg
Nash equilibria in quantum games with generalized two-parameter strategies
19 pages, 2 eps figures
Phys. Lett. A 363 (2007) 381-388
10.1016/j.physleta.2006.11.044
null
quant-ph
null
In the Eisert protocol for 2 X 2 quantum games [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3077], a number of authors have investigated the features arising from making the strategic space a two-parameter subset of single qubit unitary operators. We argue that the new Nash equilibria and the classical-quantum transitions that occur are simply an artifact of the particular strategy space chosen. By choosing a different, but equally plausible, two-parameter strategic space we show that different Nash equilibria with different classical-quantum transitions can arise. We generalize the two-parameter strategies and also consider these strategies in a multiplayer setting.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:17:37 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Flitney", "Adrian P.", "" ], [ "Hollenberg", "Lloyd C. L.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610085
Ashley Montanaro
Ashley Montanaro and Andreas Winter
A lower bound on entanglement-assisted quantum communication complexity
10 pages; v2 adds references and fixes typos
In Proc. ICALP'07, 2007
null
null
quant-ph
null
We prove a general lower bound on the bounded-error entanglement-assisted quantum communication complexity of Boolean functions. The bound is based on the concept that any classical or quantum protocol to evaluate a function on distributed inputs can be turned into a quantum communication protocol. As an application of this bound, we give a very simple proof of the statement that almost all Boolean functions on n+n bits have linear communication complexity, even in the presence of unlimited entanglement.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:03:32 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:47:02 GMT" } ]
2011-11-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Montanaro", "Ashley", "" ], [ "Winter", "Andreas", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610086
Yu Chang-shui
Chang-shui Yu, and He-shan Song
Generalized Bell inequality for mixed states with variable constraints
5 pages and 3 figures, Comments and suggestion are expected and welcome
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
In this paper, we present a generalized Bell inequality for mixed states. The distinct characteristic is that the inequality has variable bound depending on the decomposition of the density matrix. The inequality has been shown to be more refined than the previous Bell inequality. It is possible that a separable mixed state can violate the Bell inequality.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:19:14 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Yu", "Chang-shui", "" ], [ "Song", "He-shan", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610087
Matthew Jones
Benoit Darqui\'e (LCFIO), Matthew Jones (LCFIO), Jos Dingjan (LCFIO), Jerome Beugnon (LCFIO), Silvia Bergamini (LCFIO), Yvan Sortais (LCFIO), Gaetan Messin (LCFIO), Antoine Browaeys (LCFIO), Philippe Grangier (LCFIO)
Controlled Single-Photon Emission from a Single Trapped Two-Level Atom
null
Science 309 (2005) 454
10.1126/science.1113394
null
quant-ph
null
By illuminating an individual rubidium atom stored in a tight optical tweezer with short resonant light pulses, we create an efficient triggered source of single photons with a well-defined polarization. The measured intensity correlation of the emitted light pulses exhibits almost perfect antibunching. Such a source of high rate, fully controlled single photon pulses has many potential applications for quantum information processing.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:45:06 GMT" } ]
2016-08-16T00:00:00
[ [ "Darquié", "Benoit", "", "LCFIO" ], [ "Jones", "Matthew", "", "LCFIO" ], [ "Dingjan", "Jos", "", "LCFIO" ], [ "Beugnon", "Jerome", "", "LCFIO" ], [ "Bergamini", "Silvia", "", "LCFIO" ], [ "Sortais", "Yvan", "", "LCFIO" ], [ "Messin", "Gaetan", "", "LCFIO" ], [ "Browaeys", "Antoine", "", "LCFIO" ], [ "Grangier", "Philippe", "", "LCFIO" ] ]
quant-ph/0610088
Dave Bacon
Dave Bacon and Andrea Casaccino
Quantum Error Correcting Subsystem Codes From Two Classical Linear Codes
8 pages, Allerton 2006 conference. Last name fixed
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
The essential insight of quantum error correction was that quantum information can be protected by suitably encoding this quantum information across multiple independently erred quantum systems. Recently it was realized that, since the most general method for encoding quantum information is to encode it into a subsystem, there exists a novel form of quantum error correction beyond the traditional quantum error correcting subspace codes. These new quantum error correcting subsystem codes differ from subspace codes in that their quantum correcting routines can be considerably simpler than related subspace codes. Here we present a class of quantum error correcting subsystem codes constructed from two classical linear codes. These codes are the subsystem versions of the quantum error correcting subspace codes which are generalizations of Shor's original quantum error correcting subspace codes. For every Shor-type code, the codes we present give a considerable savings in the number of stabilizer measurements needed in their error recovery routines.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:56:17 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:48:49 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Bacon", "Dave", "" ], [ "Casaccino", "Andrea", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610089
Mehrdad Ghominejad
Shilan Savan, Mehrdad Ghominejad
Possible considerations to teleport fermionic particles via studying on teleportation of two-particle state with a four fermionic-particle pure entangled state
4 pages, poster presented at IPM-LHP06, Tehran, Iran; PSN: IPM-LHP06-19May
ECONFC0605151:0027,2006
null
null
quant-ph
null
In this paper we have firstly recapped some evolutionary debates on conceptual quantum information matters, followed by an experiment done by Lamei-Rashti and his collaborator, by which the bell inequality on p-p scattering is violated. We then, by using the goal of his experiment, thought to arrange POVM formalism for a possible teleportation of two particle states, via nuclear magnetic spin of four entangled hydrogen like atoms.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:03:21 GMT" } ]
2008-11-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Savan", "Shilan", "" ], [ "Ghominejad", "Mehrdad", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610090
Alessio Serafini
Alessio Serafini, Oscar C.O. Dahlsten, and Martin B. Plenio
Teleportation fidelities of squeezed states from thermodynamical state space measures
4 pages + 1 figure (not included in journal version)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 170501 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.170501
null
quant-ph
null
We introduce a "microcanonical" measure (complying with the "general canonical principle") over the second moments of pure bosonic Gaussian states under an energy constraint. We determine the average fidelity for the teleportation of states distributed according to such a measure and compare it to a threshold obtained from a feasible classical strategy. Furthermore, we show that, under the proposed measure, the distribution of the entanglement concentrates around a finite value at the thermodynamical limit and, in general, the typical entanglement of Gaussian states with maximal energy E is not close to the maximum allowed by E.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:41:08 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 9 Apr 2007 13:56:40 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Fri, 18 May 2007 19:51:52 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Serafini", "Alessio", "" ], [ "Dahlsten", "Oscar C. O.", "" ], [ "Plenio", "Martin B.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610091
Luis Benet
L. Benet, L. T. Chadderton, S. Yu. Kun, Wang Qi
Quantum-classical transition for an analog of double-slit experiment in complex collisions: Dynamical decoherence in quantum many-body systems
5 pages, 2 ps color figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A
Phys. Rev. A 75 (2007), 062110
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.062110
null
quant-ph physics.atom-ph physics.chem-ph
null
We study coherent superpositions of clockwise and anti-clockwise rotating intermediate complexes with overlapping resonances formed in bimolecular chemical reactions. Disintegration of such complexes represents an analog of famous double-slit experiment. The time for disappearance of the interference fringes is estimated from heuristic arguments related to fingerprints of chaotic dynamics of a classical counterpart of the coherently rotating complex. Validity of this estimate is confirmed numerically for the H+D$_2$ chemical reaction. Thus we demonstrate the quantum--classical transition in temporal behavior of highly excited quantum many-body systems in the absence of external noise and coupling to an environment.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:18:47 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 3 May 2007 16:44:39 GMT" } ]
2007-08-30T00:00:00
[ [ "Benet", "L.", "" ], [ "Chadderton", "L. T.", "" ], [ "Kun", "S. Yu.", "" ], [ "Qi", "Wang", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610092
Minhsiu Hsieh
Todd Brun, Igor Devetak, Min-Hsiu Hsieh
Correcting Quantum Errors with Entanglement
17 pages, no figure. To appear in Science
Science 314, 436-439 (2006).
10.1126/science.1131563
null
quant-ph
null
We show how entanglement shared between encoder and decoder can simplify the theory of quantum error correction. The entanglement-assisted quantum codes we describe do not require the dual-containing constraint necessary for standard quantum error correcting codes, thus allowing us to ``quantize'' all of classical linear coding theory. In particular, efficient modern classical codes that attain the Shannon capacity can be made into entanglement-assisted quantum codes attaining the hashing bound (closely related to the quantum capacity). For systems without large amounts of shared entanglement, these codes can also be used as catalytic codes, in which a small amount of initial entanglement enables quantum communication.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:46:37 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Brun", "Todd", "" ], [ "Devetak", "Igor", "" ], [ "Hsieh", "Min-Hsiu", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610093
Timothy C. Ralph
T.C.Ralph
A Model for Non-Linear Quantum Evolution based on Time Displaced Entanglement
null
Proc. SPIE 6305, 63050P (2006)
10.1117/12.680097
null
quant-ph
null
We discuss a model for non-linear quantum evolution based on the idea of time displaced entanglement, produced by taking one member of an entangled pair on a round trip at relativistic speeds, thus inducing a time-shift between the pair. We show that decoherence of the entangled pair is predicted. For non-maximal entanglement this then implies the ability to induce a non-unitary, non-linear quantum evolution. Although exhibiting unusual characteristics, we show that these evolutions cannot be dismissed on the basis of entropic or causal arguments.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:01:06 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Ralph", "T. C.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610094
Galina L. Klimchitskaya
F. Chen, G.L. Klimchitskaya, V.M. Mostepanenko, and U. Mohideen
Demonstration of optically modulated dispersion forces
7 pages, 3 figures, opex3.sty is used, text has been made in accordance with the final version to appear in Optics express, 3 misprints are corrected
Optics Express, vol.15, No.8, p.4823-4829 (2007)
10.1364/OE.15.004823
null
quant-ph cond-mat.other
null
We report the first experiment on the optical modulation of dispersion forces through a change of the carrier density in a Si membrane. For this purpose a high-vacuum based atomic force microscope and excitation light pulses from an Ar laser are used. The experimental results are compared with two theoretical models. The modulation of the dispersion force will find applications in optomechanical micromachines.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:34:55 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 5 Apr 2007 19:40:52 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Chen", "F.", "" ], [ "Klimchitskaya", "G. L.", "" ], [ "Mostepanenko", "V. M.", "" ], [ "Mohideen", "U.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610095
Edward Hinds
Stefan Scheel, E. A. Hinds, and P. L. Knight
Comment on `Spin Decoherence in Superconducting Atom Chips'
1 page comment
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
We comment on a recent paper [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 070401 (2006): quant-ph/0603229] concerning rubidium atoms trapped near a superconducting niobium surface at ~4K. This seeks to calculate the rate of atomic spin flips induced by thermal magnetic noise. We point out that the calculation is in error by a large factor because it is based on the two-fluid model of superconductivity. This model gives a poor description of electromagnetic dissipation just below the critical temperature because it cannot incorporate the case II coherences of a fuller quantum theory.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:41:52 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:46:12 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Scheel", "Stefan", "" ], [ "Hinds", "E. A.", "" ], [ "Knight", "P. L.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610096
Xiaofan Mo
Xiao-Fan Mo, Tao Zhang, Fang-Xing Xu, Zheng-Fu Han, and Guang-Can Guo
Quantum key distribution network with wavelength addressing
11 pages, 3 figures
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
Most traditional applications of quantum cryptography are point-to-point communications, in which only two users can exchange keys. In this letter, we present a network scheme that enable quantum key distribution between multi-user with wavelength addressing. Considering the current state of wavelength division multiplexing technique, dozens or hundreds of users can be connected to such a network and directly exchange keys with each other. With the scheme, a 4-user demonstration network was built up and key exchanges were performed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:44:30 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Sun, 15 Oct 2006 03:13:39 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Mo", "Xiao-Fan", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Tao", "" ], [ "Xu", "Fang-Xing", "" ], [ "Han", "Zheng-Fu", "" ], [ "Guo", "Guang-Can", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610097
Anthony J. Short
Noah Linden, Sandu Popescu, Anthony J. Short, Andreas Winter
No quantum advantage for nonlocal computation
4 pages
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99:180502, 2007
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.180502
null
quant-ph
null
We investigate the problem of "nonlocal" computation, in which separated parties must compute a function with nonlocally encoded inputs and output, such that each party individually learns nothing, yet together they compute the correct function output. We show that the best that can be done classically is a trivial linear approximation. Surprisingly, we also show that quantum entanglement provides no advantage over the classical case. On the other hand, generalized (i.e. super-quantum) nonlocal correlations allow perfect nonlocal computation. This gives new insights into the nature of quantum nonlocality and its relationship to generalised nonlocal correlations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:35:54 GMT" } ]
2017-08-01T00:00:00
[ [ "Linden", "Noah", "" ], [ "Popescu", "Sandu", "" ], [ "Short", "Anthony J.", "" ], [ "Winter", "Andreas", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610098
Grigori Amosov
Grigori Amosov
On strong superadditivity for a class of quantum channels
revtex, 4 pages
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
Given a quantum channel $\Phi $ in a Hilbert space $H$ put $\hat H_{\Phi}(\rho)=\min \limits_{\rho_{av}=\rho}\Sigma_{j=1}^{k}\pi_{j}S(\Phi (\rho_{j}))$, where $\rho_{av}=\Sigma_{j=1}^{k}\pi_{j}\rho_{j}$, the minimum is taken over all probability distributions $\pi =\{\pi_{j}\}$ and states $\rho_{j}$ in $H$, $S(\rho)=-Tr\rho\log\rho$ is the von Neumann entropy of a state $\rho$. The strong superadditivity conjecture states that $\hat H_{\Phi \otimes \Psi}(\rho)\ge \hat H_{\Phi}(Tr_{K}(\rho))+\hat H_{\Psi}(Tr_{H}(\rho))$ for two channels $\Phi $ and $\Psi $ in Hilbert spaces $H$ and $K$, respectively. We have proved the strong superadditivity conjecture for the quantum depolarizing channel in prime dimensions. The estimation of the quantity $\hat H_{\Phi\otimes \Psi}(\rho)$ for the special class of Weyl channels $\Phi $ of the form $\Phi=\Xi \circ \Phi_{dep}$, where $\Phi_{dep}$ is the quantum depolarizing channel and $\Xi $ is the phase damping is given.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:37:24 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:49:13 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Amosov", "Grigori", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610099
Guifre Vidal
G. Vidal
A class of quantum many-body states that can be efficiently simulated
4 pages, 5 figures
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 110501 (2008)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.110501
null
quant-ph cond-mat.str-el
null
We introduce the multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA), an efficient representation of certain quantum many-body states on a D-dimensional lattice. Equivalent to a quantum circuit with logarithmic depth and distinctive causal structure, the MERA allows for an exact evaluation of local expectation values. It is also the structure underlying entanglement renormalization, a coarse-graining scheme for quantum systems on a lattice that is focused on preserving entanglement.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:58:24 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Vidal", "G.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610100
Bernhard Baumgartner
Bernhard Baumgartner, Beatrix Hiesmayr, Heide Narnhofer
A special simplex in the state space for entangled qudits
24 pages, in connection with the Workshop 'Theory and Technology in Quantum Information, Communication, Computation and Cryptography' June 2006, Trieste; summary and outlook added, minor changes in notation
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 (2007) 7919-7938
10.1088/1751-8113/40/28/S03
UWTh-Ph-2006-23
quant-ph math-ph math.MP
null
Focus is on two parties with Hilbert spaces of dimension d, i.e. "qudits". In the state space of these two possibly entangled qudits an analogue to the well known tetrahedron with the four qubit Bell states at the vertices is presented. The simplex analogue to this magic tetrahedron includes mixed states. Each of these states appears to each of the two parties as the maximally mixed state. Some studies on these states are performed, and special elements of this set are identified. A large number of them is included in the chosen simplex which fits exactly into conditions needed for teleportation and other applications. Its rich symmetry - related to that of a classical phase space - helps to study entanglement, to construct witnesses and perform partial transpositions. This simplex has been explored in details for d=3. In this paper the mathematical background and extensions to arbitrary dimensions are analysed.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:00:33 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 3 Apr 2007 15:51:38 GMT" } ]
2011-11-09T00:00:00
[ [ "Baumgartner", "Bernhard", "" ], [ "Hiesmayr", "Beatrix", "" ], [ "Narnhofer", "Heide", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610101
Ling-An Wu
Yan-Hua Zhai, Xi-Hao Chen and Ling-An Wu
Two-photon interference with two independent pseudo-thermal sources
Phys. Rev. A 74, 053807 (2006)
null
10.1103/PhysRevA.74.053807
null
quant-ph
null
The nature of two-photon interference is a subject that has aroused renewed interest in recent years and is still under debate. In this paper we report the first observation of two-photon interference with independent pseudo-thermal sources in which sub-wavelength interference is observed. The phenomenon may be described in terms of the classical statistical distribution of the two sources and their optical transfer functions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:08:47 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:47:26 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Zhai", "Yan-Hua", "" ], [ "Chen", "Xi-Hao", "" ], [ "Wu", "Ling-An", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610102
Yong Li
Yong Li, C. Bruder, and C. P. Sun
Time-dependent Fr\"ohlich transformation approach for two-atom entanglement generated by successive passage through a cavity
7 pages, 3 figures
Phys. Rev. A 75, 032302 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.032302
null
quant-ph
null
Time-dependent Fr\"ohlich transformations can be used to derive an effective Hamiltonian for a class of quantum systems with time-dependent perturbations. We use such a transformation for a system with time-dependent atom-photon coupling induced by the classical motion of two atoms in an inhomogeneous electromagnetic field. We calculate the entanglement between the two atoms resulting from their motion through a cavity as a function of their initial position difference and velocity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:32:41 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 1 Oct 2007 11:54:18 GMT" } ]
2007-10-01T00:00:00
[ [ "Li", "Yong", "" ], [ "Bruder", "C.", "" ], [ "Sun", "C. P.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610103
Koji Maruyama
K. Maruyama, T. Iitaka, F. Nori
Enhancement of entanglement transfer in a spin chain by phase shift-control
7 pages, 5 figures. v2: a fig added, the main text modified a bit
PRA75, 012325(2007).
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.012325
null
quant-ph
null
We study the effect of a phase shift on the amount of transferrable two-spin entanglement in a spin chain. We consider a ferromagnetic Heisenberg/XY spin chain, both numerically and analytically, and two mechanisms to generate a phase shift, the Aharonov-Casher effect and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. In both cases, the maximum attainable entanglement is shown to be significantly enhanced, suggesting its potential usefulness in quantum information processing.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:41:01 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:40:50 GMT" } ]
2007-07-08T00:00:00
[ [ "Maruyama", "K.", "" ], [ "Iitaka", "T.", "" ], [ "Nori", "F.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610104
J. L. Lucio Dr.
J.L. Lucio M.
The role of degeneracy in the analogy between continuous variable and spin 1/2 systems
5 pages, 2 figures
null
10.1088/1742-6596/84/1/012014
null
quant-ph
null
We point out limitations to the analogy between the continuous variable and spin 1/2 systems and show that the maximal violation of Bell inequality is related to an infinite degeneracy. We quantify non-maximal violation of the Bell-CHSH inequality and comment potential experimental implications of our work.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:45:51 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "M.", "J. L. Lucio", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610105
Shengchao Ding
Shengchao Ding, Zhi Jin, Qing Yang
Evolving Quantum Oracles with Hybrid Quantum-inspired Evolutionary Algorithm
8.4 pages, 5 figures and 2 tables
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
Quantum oracles play key roles in the studies of quantum computation and quantum information. But implementing quantum oracles efficiently with universal quantum gates is a hard work. Motivated by genetic programming, this paper proposes a novel approach to evolve quantum oracles with a hybrid quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm. The approach codes quantum circuits with numerical values and combines the cost and correctness of quantum circuits into the fitness function. To speed up the calculation of matrix multiplication in the evaluation of individuals, a fast algorithm of matrix multiplication with Kronecker product is also presented. The experiments show the validity and the effects of some parameters of the presented approach. And some characteristics of the novel approach are discussed too.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 13 Oct 2006 03:52:03 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Ding", "Shengchao", "" ], [ "Jin", "Zhi", "" ], [ "Yang", "Qing", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610106
Laurent Chusseau
Jacques Arnaud (CEM2), Laurent Chusseau (CEM2), Fabrice Philippe (LIRMM)
Semi-classical theory of quiet lasers. I: Principles
116 pages Second draft of a book project. To be completed by a part II incuding extended details on application of the theory
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
When light originating from a laser diode driven by non-fluctuating electrical currents is incident on a photo-detector, the photo-current does not fluctuate much. Precisely, this means that the variance of the number of photo-electrons counted over a large time interval is much smaller that the average number of photo-electrons. At non-zero Fourier frequency $\Omega$ the photo-current power spectrum is of the form $\Omega^2/(1+\Omega^2)$ and thus vanishes as $\Omega\to 0$, a conclusion equivalent to the one given above. The purpose of this paper is to show that results such as the one just cited may be derived from a (semi-classical) theory in which neither the optical field nor the electron wave-function are quantized. We first observe that almost any medium may be described by a circuit and distinguish (possibly non-linear) conservative elements such as pure capacitances, and conductances that represent the atom-field coupling. The theory rests on the non-relativistic approximation. Nyquist noise sources (in which the Planck term $\hbar\omega/2$ is being restored) are associated with positive or negative conductances, and the law of average-energy conservation is enforced. We consider mainly second-order correlations in stationary linearized regimes.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:39:04 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:47:20 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Arnaud", "Jacques", "", "CEM2" ], [ "Chusseau", "Laurent", "", "CEM2" ], [ "Philippe", "Fabrice", "", "LIRMM" ] ]
quant-ph/0610107
Plamen Petrov
Plamen G. Petrov, Daniel Oblak, Carlos L. Garrido Alzar, Niels Kjaergaard, and Eugene S. Polzik
Non-destructive interferometric characterization of an optical dipole trap
9 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PRA
Phys. Rev. A, 75, 033803, (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.033803
null
quant-ph
null
A method for non-destructive characterization of a dipole trapped atomic sample is presented. It relies on a measurement of the phase-shift imposed by cold atoms on an optical pulse that propagates through a free space Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Using this technique we are able to determine, with very good accuracy, relevant trap parameters such as the atomic sample temperature, trap oscillation frequencies and loss rates. Another important feature is that our method is faster than conventional absorption or fluorescence techniques, allowing the combination of high-dynamical range measurements and a reduced number of spontaneous emission events per atom.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:46:14 GMT" } ]
2015-06-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Petrov", "Plamen G.", "" ], [ "Oblak", "Daniel", "" ], [ "Alzar", "Carlos L. Garrido", "" ], [ "Kjaergaard", "Niels", "" ], [ "Polzik", "Eugene S.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610108
Giuseppe Florio
P. Facchi, G. Florio, S. Pascazio
Characterizing and measuring multipartite Entanglement
7 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to "International Journal of Quantum Information"
International Journal of Quantum Information, Vol. 5, Nos. 1-2, 97-103 (2007)
10.1142/S0219749907002542
null
quant-ph
null
A method is proposed to characterize and quantify multipartite entanglement in terms of the probability density function of bipartite entanglement over all possible balanced bipartitions of an ensemble of qubits. The method is tested on a class of random pure states.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:47:12 GMT" } ]
2007-05-25T00:00:00
[ [ "Facchi", "P.", "" ], [ "Florio", "G.", "" ], [ "Pascazio", "S.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610109
Caterina-Eloisa Mora
C. Mora, H. Briegel and B. Kraus
Quantum Kolmogorov complexity and its applications
12 pages, no figures
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
Kolmogorov complexity is a measure of the information contained in a binary string. We investigate here the notion of quantum Kolmogorov complexity, a measure of the information required to describe a quantum state. We show that for any definition of quantum Kolmogorov complexity measuring the number of classical bits required to describe a pure quantum state, there exists a pure n-qubit state which requires exponentially many bits of description. This is shown by relating the classical communication complexity to the quantum Kolmogorov complexity. Furthermore we give some examples of how quantum Kolmogorov complexity can be applied to prove results in different fields, such as quantum computation and thermodynamics, and we generalize it to the case of mixed quantum states.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:26:06 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Mora", "C.", "" ], [ "Briegel", "H.", "" ], [ "Kraus", "B.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610110
Mete Atature
Mete Atature, Jan Dreiser, Antonio Badolato, Atac Imamoglu
Observation of Faraday rotation from a single confined spin
null
null
10.1038/nphys521
null
quant-ph
null
Ability to read-out the state of a single confined spin lies at the heart of solid-state quantum information processing. While all-optical spin measurements using Faraday rotation has been successfully implemented in ensembles of semiconductor spins, read-out of a single semiconductor spin has only been achieved using transport measurements based on spin-charge conversion. Here, we demonstrate an all-optical dispersive measurement of the spin-state of a single electron trapped in a semiconductor quantum dot. We obtain information on the spin state through conditional Faraday rotation of a spectrally detuned optical field, induced by the polarization- and spin-selective trion (charged quantum dot) transitions. To assess the sensitivity of the technique, we use an independent resonant laser for spin-state preparation. An all-optical dispersive measurement on single spins has the important advantage of channeling the measurement back-action onto a conjugate observable, thereby allowing for repetitive or continuous quantum nondemolition (QND) read-out of the spin-state. We infer from our results that there are of order unity back-action induced spin-flip Raman scattering events within our measurement timescale. Therefore, straightforward improvements such as the use of a solid-immersion lens and higher efficiency detectors would allow for back-action evading spin measurements, without the need for a cavity.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:09:41 GMT" } ]
2015-06-26T00:00:00
[ [ "Atature", "Mete", "" ], [ "Dreiser", "Jan", "" ], [ "Badolato", "Antonio", "" ], [ "Imamoglu", "Atac", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610111
Layla Hormozi
L. Hormozi, G. Zikos, N.E. Bonesteel, S.H. Simon
Topological Quantum Compiling
20 pages, 20 figures, published version
Phys. Rev. B 75, 165310 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevB.75.165310
null
quant-ph cond-mat.mes-hall
null
A method for compiling quantum algorithms into specific braiding patterns for non-Abelian quasiparticles described by the so-called Fibonacci anyon model is developed. The method is based on the observation that a universal set of quantum gates acting on qubits encoded using triplets of these quasiparticles can be built entirely out of three-stranded braids (three-braids). These three-braids can then be efficiently compiled and improved to any required accuracy using the Solovay-Kitaev algorithm.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:08:11 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:22:11 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Hormozi", "L.", "" ], [ "Zikos", "G.", "" ], [ "Bonesteel", "N. E.", "" ], [ "Simon", "S. H.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610112
Sascha Gaertner
S. Gaertner, C. Kurtsiefer, M. Bourennane and H. Weinfurter
Experimental demonstration of four-party quantum secret sharing
null
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 020503 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.020503
null
quant-ph
null
Secret sharing is a multiparty cryptographic task in which some secret information is splitted into several pieces which are distributed among the participants such that only an authorized set of participants can reconstruct the original secret. Similar to quantum key distribution, in quantum secret sharing, the secrecy of the shared information relies not on computational assumptions, but on laws of quantum physics. Here, we present an experimental demonstration of four-party quantum secret sharing via the resource of four-photon entanglement.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:56:16 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Gaertner", "S.", "" ], [ "Kurtsiefer", "C.", "" ], [ "Bourennane", "M.", "" ], [ "Weinfurter", "H.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610113
Lorenz Hartmann
L. Hartmann, B. Kraus, H.-J. Briegel and W. D\"ur
On the role of memory errors in quantum repeaters
19 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables; V2: references updated
Phys. Rev. A 75, 032310, 2007
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.032310
null
quant-ph
null
We investigate the influence of memory errors in the quantum repeater scheme for long-range quantum communication. We show that the communication distance is limited in standard operation mode due to memory errors resulting from unavoidable waiting times for classical signals. We show how to overcome these limitations by (i) improving local memory, and (ii) introducing two new operational modes of the quantum repeater. In both operational modes, the repeater is run blindly, i.e. without waiting for classical signals to arrive. In the first scheme, entanglement purification protocols based on one-way classical communication are used allowing to communicate over arbitrary distances. However, the error thresholds for noise in local control operations are very stringent. The second scheme makes use of entanglement purification protocols with two-way classical communication and inherits the favorable error thresholds of the repeater run in standard mode. One can increase the possible communication distance by an order of magnitude with reasonable overhead in physical resources. We outline the architecture of a quantum repeater that can possibly ensure intercontinental quantum communication.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:16:56 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:48:08 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Hartmann", "L.", "" ], [ "Kraus", "B.", "" ], [ "Briegel", "H. -J.", "" ], [ "Dür", "W.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610114
Tun Wang
T. Wang, S. Yelin
Rotation of atoms in a two dimensional lattice with a harmonic trap
4 pages, some paragraphs were refrased, typos corrected. beta is corrected
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
Rotation of atoms in a lattice is studied using a Hubbard model. It is found that the atoms are still contained in the trap even when the rotation frequency is larger than the trapping frequency. This is very different from the behavior in continuum. Bragg scattering and coupling between angular and radial motion are believed to make this stability possible. In this regime, density depletion at the center of the trap can be developed for spin polarized fermions.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:49:57 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:55:21 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:44:03 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Wang", "T.", "" ], [ "Yelin", "S.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610115
Mark Wilde
Mark M. Wilde, Federico Spedalieri, Jonathan P. Dowling, Hwang Lee
Alternate Scheme for Optical Cluster-State Generation without Number-Resolving Photon Detectors
10 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables; made significant revisions and changed format
International Journal of Quantum Information, Vol. 5, No. 4 (2007) pp. 617-626
10.1142/S0219749907003080
CSI-07-08-03
quant-ph
null
We design a controlled-phase gate for linear optical quantum computing by using photodetectors that cannot resolve photon number. An intrinsic error-correction circuit corrects errors introduced by the detectors. Our controlled-phase gate has a 1/4 success probability. Recent development in cluster-state quantum computing has shown that a two-qubit gate with non-zero success probability can build an arbitrarily large cluster state with only polynomial overhead. Hence, it is possible to generate optical cluster states without number-resolving detectors and with polynomial overhead.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:16:25 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:55:11 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 2 Jan 2007 16:03:32 GMT" }, { "version": "v4", "created": "Tue, 22 May 2007 04:06:23 GMT" } ]
2009-09-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Wilde", "Mark M.", "" ], [ "Spedalieri", "Federico", "" ], [ "Dowling", "Jonathan P.", "" ], [ "Lee", "Hwang", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610116
Alexander I. Lvovsky
Juergen Appel, Dallas Hoffman, Eden Figueroa, A. I. Lvovsky
Electronic Noise in Optical Homodyne Tomography
Experimental results added
Physical Review A 75, 035802 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.035802
null
quant-ph
null
The effect of the detector electronic noise in an optical homodyne tomography experiment is shown to be equivalent to an optical loss if the detector is calibrated by measuring the quadrature noise of the vacuum state. An explicit relation between the electronic noise level and the equivalent optical efficiency is obtained and confirmed in an experiment with a narrowband squeezed vacuum source operating at an atomic rubidium wavelength.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:19:14 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:50:05 GMT" } ]
2010-12-03T00:00:00
[ [ "Appel", "Juergen", "" ], [ "Hoffman", "Dallas", "" ], [ "Figueroa", "Eden", "" ], [ "Lvovsky", "A. I.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610117
M. I. Dyakonov
M. I. Dyakonov
Is Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation Really Possible?
Based on a talk given at the Future Trends in Microelectronics workshop, Crete, June 2006. 8 pages, 1 figure
In: Future Trends in Microelectronics. Up the Nano Creek, S. Luryi, J. Xu, and A. Zaslavsky (eds), Wiley (2007), pp. 4-18
null
null
quant-ph cond-mat.other cond-mat.str-el physics.atom-ph
null
The so-called "threshold" theorem says that, once the error rate per qubit per gate is below a certain value, indefinitely long quantum computation becomes feasible, even if all of the qubits involved are subject to relaxation processes, and all the manipulations with qubits are not exact. The purpose of this article, intended for physicists, is to outline the ideas of quantum error correction and to take a look at the proposed technical instruction for fault-tolerant quantum computation. It seems that the mathematics behind the threshold theorem is somewhat detached from the physical reality, and that some ideal elements are always present in the construction. This raises serious doubts about the possibility of large scale quantum computations, even as a matter of principle.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:07:17 GMT" } ]
2007-06-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Dyakonov", "M. I.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610118
Yoritoshi Adachi
Yoritoshi Adachi, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi, Nobuyuki Imoto
Simple and efficient quantum key distribution with parametric down-conversion
5 pages, 2 figures; published version in Phys. Rev. Lett
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 180503 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.180503
null
quant-ph
null
We propose an efficient quantum key distribution protocol based on the photon-pair generation from parametric down-conversion (PDC). It uses the same experimental setup as the conventional protocol, but a refined data analysis enables detection of photon-number splitting attacks by utilizing information from a built-in decoy state. Assuming the use of practical detectors, we analyze the unconditional security of the new scheme and show that it improves the secure key generation rate by several orders of magnitude at long distances, using a high intensity PDC source.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Sun, 15 Oct 2006 05:46:35 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Tue, 6 Nov 2007 05:37:44 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Adachi", "Yoritoshi", "" ], [ "Yamamoto", "Takashi", "" ], [ "Koashi", "Masato", "" ], [ "Imoto", "Nobuyuki", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610119
Peter van Loock
Peter van Loock, Christian Weedbrook, and Mile Gu
Building Gaussian Cluster States by Linear Optics
5 Pages, 3 figures
Phys. Rev. A 76, 032321 (2007).
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.032321
null
quant-ph
null
The linear optical creation of Gaussian cluster states, a potential resource for universal quantum computation, is investigated. We show that for any Gaussian cluster state, the canonical generation scheme in terms of QND-type interactions, can be entirely replaced by off-line squeezers and beam splitters. Moreover, we find that, in terms of squeezing resources, the canonical states are rather wasteful and we propose a systematic way to create cheaper states. As an application, we consider Gaussian cluster computation in multiple-rail encoding. This encoding may reduce errors due to finite squeezing, even when the extra rails are achieved through off-line squeezing and linear optics.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:12:30 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "van Loock", "Peter", "" ], [ "Weedbrook", "Christian", "" ], [ "Gu", "Mile", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610120
Z.H. Peng
Z.H. Peng, H.F. Chu, Z.D. Wang, D.N. Zheng
Implementation of adiabatic Abelian geometric gates with superconducting phase qubits
14 pages, 6 figures
null
null
null
quant-ph cond-mat.supr-con
null
We have developed an adiabatic Abelian geometric quantum computation strategy based on the non-degenerate energy eigenstates in (but not limited to) superconducting phase-qubit systems. The fidelity of the designed quantum gate was evaluated in the presence of simulated thermal fluctuation in superconducting phase qubits circuit and was found to be rather robust against the random errors. In addition, it was elucidated that the Berry phase in the designed adiabatic evolution may be detected directly via the quantum state tomography developed for superconducting qubits.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:32:14 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:50:16 GMT" }, { "version": "v3", "created": "Tue, 7 Aug 2007 05:46:26 GMT" } ]
2007-08-07T00:00:00
[ [ "Peng", "Z. H.", "" ], [ "Chu", "H. F.", "" ], [ "Wang", "Z. D.", "" ], [ "Zheng", "D. N.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610121
Olimpia Lombardi
Olimpia Lombardi and Mario Castagnino
A modal-Hamiltonian interpretation of quantum mechanics
82 pages, no figures. Forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
The aim of this paper is to introduce a new member of the family of the modal interpretations of quantum mechanics. In this modal-Hamiltonian interpretation, the Hamiltonian of the quantum system plays a decisive role in the property-ascription rule that selects the definite-valued observables whose possible values become actual. We show that this interpretation is effective for solving the measurement problem, both in its ideal and its non-ideal versions, and we argue for the physical relevance of the property-ascription rule by applying it to well-known physical situations. Moreover, we explain how this interpretation supplies a description of the elemental categories of the ontology referred to by the theory, where quantum systems turn out to be bundles of possible properties.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:14:29 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:32:55 GMT" } ]
2008-02-04T00:00:00
[ [ "Lombardi", "Olimpia", "" ], [ "Castagnino", "Mario", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610122
Werner Stulpe
Werner Stulpe
Classical Representations of Quantum Mechanics Related to Statistically Complete Observables
118 pages, no figures. This work was published 1997 as a book by Wissenschaft und Technik Verlag Berlin. Since it has proved to be of interest to some researchers, it is published here for an easier access
null
null
null
quant-ph
null
We present a reformulation of quantum mechanics in terms of probability measures and functions on a general classical sample space and in particular in terms of probability densities and functions on phase space. The basis of our proceeding is the existence of so-called statistically complete observables and the duality between the state spaces and the spaces of the observables, the latter holding in the quantum as well as in the classical case. In the phase-space context, we further discuss joint position-momentum observables, Hilbert spaces of infinitely differentiable functions on phase space, and dequantizations. Finally, the relation of quantum dynamics to the classical Liouville dynamics is investigated.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:18:11 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Stulpe", "Werner", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610123
Eyob Alebachew Sete
Eyob Alebachew and K. Fesseha
Interaction of a two-level atom with squeezed light
9 pages and 9 figures, in press, Opt. Commun
null
10.1016/j.optcom.2006.10.016
null
quant-ph
null
We consider a degenerate parametric oscillator whose cavity contains a two-level atom. Applying the Heisenberg and quantum Langevin equations, we calculate in the bad-cavity limit the mean photon number, the quadrature variance, and the power spectrum for the cavity mode in general and for the signal light and fluorescent light in particular. We also obtain the normalized second-order correlation function for the fluorescent light. We find that the presence of the two-level atom leads to a decrease in the degree of squeezing of the signal light. It so turns out that the fluorescent light is in a squeezed state and the power spectrum consists of a single peak only.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 16 Oct 2006 05:17:32 GMT" }, { "version": "v2", "created": "Mon, 6 Nov 2006 12:51:29 GMT" } ]
2007-05-23T00:00:00
[ [ "Alebachew", "Eyob", "" ], [ "Fesseha", "K.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610124
Katalin Hangos
D. Petz, K.M. Hangos, A. Magyar
Point Estimation of States of Finite Quantum Systems
16 pages, 5 figures
null
10.1088/1751-8113/40/28/S06
null
quant-ph
null
The estimation of the density matrix of a $k$-level quantum system is studied when the parametrization is given by the real and imaginary part of the entries and they are estimated by independent measurements. It is established that the properties of the estimation procedure depend very much on the invertibility of the true state. In particular, in case of a pure state the estimation is less efficient. Moreover, several estimation schemes are compared for the unknown state of a qubit when one copy is measured at a time. It is shown that the average mean quadratic error matrix is the smallest if the applied observables are complementary. The results are illustrated by computer simulations.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:07:27 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Petz", "D.", "" ], [ "Hangos", "K. M.", "" ], [ "Magyar", "A.", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610125
Ye Yeo
Ye Yeo
Local noise can enhance entanglement teleportation
10 pages
null
10.1103/PhysRevA.78.022334
null
quant-ph
null
Recently we have considered two-qubit teleportation via mixed states of four qubits and defined the generalized singlet fraction. For single-qubit teleportation, Badziag {\em et al.} [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 62}, 012311 (2000)] and Bandyopadhyay [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 65}, 022302 (2002)] have obtained a family of entangled two-qubit mixed states whose teleportation fidelity can be enhanced by subjecting one of the qubits to dissipative interaction with the environment via an amplitude damping channel. Here, we show that a dissipative interaction with the local environment via a pair of time-correlated amplitude damping channels can enhance fidelity of entanglement teleportation for a class of entangled four-qubit mixed states. Interestingly, we find that this enhancement corresponds to an enhancement in the quantum discord for some states.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:49:11 GMT" } ]
2013-05-29T00:00:00
[ [ "Yeo", "Ye", "" ] ]
quant-ph/0610126
Mihai Macovei
Mihai A. Macovei
Quantum tunneling through vacuum-multiparticle induced potentials
Multiparticle samples, quantum tunneling, vacuum induced potentials
Phys. Rev. A 75, 043803 (2007)
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.043803
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quant-ph
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The vacuum cavity mode induces a potential barrier and a well when an ultra-slow excited atom enters the interaction region so that it can be reflected or transmitted with a certain probability. We demonstrate here that a slow-velocity excited particle tunnels freely through a vacuum electromagnetic field mode filled with $N-1$ ground state atoms. The reason for this is the trapping of the moving atom into its upper state due to multiparticle influences and the corresponding decoupling from the interaction with the environment such that the emitter does not {\it see} the induced potentials.
[ { "version": "v1", "created": "Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:08:36 GMT" } ]
2009-11-13T00:00:00
[ [ "Macovei", "Mihai A.", "" ] ]