44 research outputs found
Nonstationary Casimir effect in cavities with two resonantly coupled modes
We study the peculiarities of the nonstationary Casimir effect (creation of
photons in cavities with moving boundaries) in the special case of two
resonantly coupled modes with frequencies and ,
parametrically excited due to small amplitude oscillations of the ideal cavity
wall at the frequency (with ). The
effects of thermally induced oscillations in time dependences of the mean
numbers of created photons and the exchange of quantum purities between the
modes are discovered. Squeezing and photon distributions in each modes are
calculated for initial vacuum and thermal states. A possibility of compensation
of detunings is shown.Comment: 17 pages, 5 ps figures, LaTex, accepted for publication in Physics
Letters
Giant Cyclones in Gaseous Discs of Spiral Galaxies
We report detection of giant cyclonic vortices in the gaseous disc of the
spiral galaxy NGC 3631 in the reference frame rotating with the spiral pattern.
A presence of such structures was predicted by the authors for galaxies, where
the radial gradient of the perturbed velocity exceeds that of the rotational
velocity. This situation really takes place in NGC 3631.Comment: 13 pages, 4 EPS and 3 PS figure
Quantum electromagnetic field in a three dimensional oscillating cavity
We compute the photon creation inside a perfectly conducting, three
dimensional oscillating cavity, taking the polarization of the electromagnetic
field into account. As the boundary conditions for this field are both of
Dirichlet and (generalized) Neumann type, we analyze as a preliminary step the
dynamical Casimir effect for a scalar field satisfying generalized Neumann
boundary conditions. We show that particle production is enhanced with respect
to the case of Dirichlet boundary conditions. Then we consider the transverse
electric and transverse magnetic polarizations of the electromagnetic field.
For resonant frequencies, the total number of photons grows exponentially in
time for both polarizations, the rate being greater for transverse magnetic
modes.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figur
Spin superradiance versus atomic superradiance
A comparative analysis is given of spin superradiance and atomic
superradiance. Their similarities and distinctions are emphasized. It is shown
that, despite a close analogy, these phenomena are fundamentally different. In
atomic systems, superradiance is a self-organized process, in which both the
initial cause, being spontaneous emission, as well as the collectivizing
mechanism of their interactions through the common radiation field, are of the
same physical nature. Contrary to this, in actual spin systems with dipole
interactions, the latter are the major reason for spin motion. Electromagnetic
spin interactions through radiation are negligible and can never produce
collective effects. The possibility of realizing superradiance in molecular
magnets by coupling them to a resonant circuit is discussed.Comment: Latex file, 12 pages, no figure
New Structures in Galactic Disks: Predictions and Discoveries
Original paper can be found at http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/cs/222-252.html--Copyright Astronomical Society of the Pacific --Our main goal is to review: 1) some physical mechanisms which form the observed structures in galactic disks; 2) the discovery of new galactic structures predicted earlier. Specifically in the first part of the paper we discuss some questions associated with spiral structure. The second part is devoted to the prediction and discovery of giant vortices in gaseous disks of the grand design spiral galaxies using method of reconstruction of the full three-component velocity field from the observed line-of-sight velocity field. In the third part, we give some arguments in favour of existence of the slow bars in the grand design spiral galaxies
A volume inequality for quantum Fisher information and the uncertainty principle
Let be complex self-adjoint matrices and let be a
density matrix. The Robertson uncertainty principle gives a bound for the quantum
generalized covariance in terms of the commutators . The right side
matrix is antisymmetric and therefore the bound is trivial (equal to zero) in
the odd case .
Let be an arbitrary normalized symmetric operator monotone function and
let be the associated quantum Fisher information. In
this paper we conjecture the inequality that gives a
non-trivial bound for any natural number using the commutators . The inequality has been proved in the cases by the joint efforts
of many authors. In this paper we prove the case N=3 for real matrices
Multiorder coherent Raman scattering of a quantum probe field
We study the multiorder coherent Raman scattering of a quantum probe field in
a far-off-resonance medium with a prepared coherence. Under the conditions of
negligible dispersion and limited bandwidth, we derive a Bessel-function
solution for the sideband field operators. We analytically and numerically
calculate various quantum statistical characteristics of the sideband fields.
We show that the multiorder coherent Raman process can replicate the
statistical properties of a single-mode quantum probe field into a broad comb
of generated Raman sidebands. We also study the mixing and modulation of photon
statistical properties in the case of two-mode input. We show that the prepared
Raman coherence and the medium length can be used as control parameters to
switch a sideband field from one type of photon statistics to another type, or
from a non-squeezed state to a squeezed state and vice versa.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev.
Multipartite entangled states in coupled quantum dots and cavity-QED
We investigate the generation of multipartite entangled state in a system of
N quantum dots embedded in a microcavity and examine the emergence of genuine
multipartite entanglement by three different characterizations of entanglement.
At certain times of dynamical evolution one can generate multipartite entangled
coherent exciton states or multiqubit states by initially preparing the
cavity field in a superposition of coherent states or the Fock state with one
photon, respectively. Finally we study environmental effects on multipartite
entanglement generation and find that the decay rate for the entanglement is
proportional to the number of excitons.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Solvable model of dissipative dynamics in the deep strong coupling regime
We describe the dynamics of a qubit interacting with a bosonic mode coupled
to a zero-temperature bath in the deep strong coupling (DSC) regime. We provide
an analytical solution for this open system dynamics in the off-resonance case
of the qubit-mode interaction. Collapses and revivals of parity chain
populations and the oscillatory behavior of the mean photon number are
predicted. At the same time, photon number wave packets, propagating back and
forth along parity chains, become incoherently mixed. Finally, we investigate
numerically the effect of detuning on the validity of the analytical solution.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figure
Nonequilibrium Evolution of Correlation Functions: A Canonical Approach
We study nonequilibrium evolution in a self-interacting quantum field theory
invariant under space translation only by using a canonical approach based on
the recently developed Liouville-von Neumann formalism. The method is first
used to obtain the correlation functions both in and beyond the Hartree
approximation, for the quantum mechanical analog of the model. The
technique involves representing the Hamiltonian in a Fock basis of annihilation
and creation operators. By separating it into a solvable Gaussian part
involving quadratic terms and a perturbation of quartic terms, it is possible
to find the improved vacuum state to any desired order. The correlation
functions for the field theory are then investigated in the Hartree
approximation and those beyond the Hartree approximation are obtained by
finding the improved vacuum state corrected up to . These
correlation functions take into account next-to-leading and
next-to-next-to-leading order effects in the coupling constant. We also use the
Heisenberg formalism to obtain the time evolution equations for the equal-time,
connected correlation functions beyond the leading order. These equations are
derived by including the connected 4-point functions in the hierarchy. The
resulting coupled set of equations form a part of infinite hierarchy of coupled
equations relating the various connected n-point functions. The connection with
other approaches based on the path integral formalism is established and the
physical implications of the set of equations are discussed with particular
emphasis on thermalization.Comment: Revtex, 32 pages; substantial new material dealing with
non-equilibrium evolution beyond Hartree approx. based on the LvN formalism,
has been adde