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Adaptive multibeam antennas for spacelab. Phase A: Feasibility study
The feasibility was studied of using adaptive multibeam multi-frequency antennas on the spacelab, and to define the experiment configuration and program plan needed for a demonstration to prove the concept. Three applications missions were selected, and requirements were defined for an L band communications experiment, an L band radiometer experiment, and a Ku band communications experiment. Reflector, passive lens, and phased array antenna systems were considered, and the Adaptive Multibeam Phased Array (AMPA) was chosen. Array configuration and beamforming network tradeoffs resulted in a single 3m x 3m L band array with 576 elements for high radiometer beam efficiency. Separate 0.4m x 0.4 m arrays are used to transmit and receive at Ku band with either 576 elements or thinned apertures. Each array has two independently steerable 5 deg beams, which are adaptively controlled
Experimental detection of steerability in Bell local states with two measurement settings
Steering, a quantum property stronger than entanglement but weaker than
non-locality in the quantum correlation hierarchy, is a key resource for
one-sided device-independent quantum key distribution applications, in which
only one of the communicating parties is trusted. A fine-grained steering
inequality was introduced in [PRA 90 050305(R) (2014)], enabling for the first
time the detection of steering in all steerable two-qubit Werner states using
only two measurement settings. Here we numerically and experimentally
investigate this inequality for generalized Werner states and successfully
detect steerability in a wide range of two-photon polarization-entangled Bell
local states generated by a parametric down-conversion source.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures (including Appendix
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