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Energy Conservation Constraints on Multiplicity Correlations in QCD Jets
We compute analytically the effects of energy conservation on the
self-similar structure of parton correlations in QCD jets. The calculations are
performed both in the constant and running coupling cases. It is shown that the
corrections are phenomenologically sizeable. On a theoretical ground, energy
conservation constraints preserve the scaling properties of correlations in QCD
jets beyond the leading log approximation.Comment: 11 pages, latex, 5 figures, .tar.gz version avaliable on
ftp://www.inln.unice.fr
Manipulation and Detection of a Trapped Yb+ Ion Hyperfine Qubit
We demonstrate the use of trapped ytterbium ions as quantum bits for quantum
information processing. We implement fast, efficient state preparation and
state detection of the first-order magnetic field-insensitive hyperfine levels
of 171Yb+, with a measured coherence time of 2.5 seconds. The high efficiency
and high fidelity of these operations is accomplished through the stabilization
and frequency modulation of relevant laser sources.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, 1 tabl
Implementation of Grover's Quantum Search Algorithm in a Scalable System
We report the implementation of Grover's quantum search algorithm in the
scalable system of trapped atomic ion quantum bits. Any one of four possible
states of a two-qubit memory is marked, and following a single query of the
search space, the marked element is successfully recovered with an average
probability of 60(2)%. This exceeds the performance of any possible classical
search algorithm, which can only succeed with a maximum average probability of
50%.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, updated error discussio
Exploring the Structure of Distant Galaxies with Adaptive Optics on the Keck-II Telescope
We report on the first observation of cosmologically distant field galaxies
with an high order Adaptive Optics (AO) system on an 8-10 meter class
telescope. Two galaxies were observed at 1.6 microns at an angular resolution
as high as 50 milliarcsec using the AO system on the Keck-II telescope. Radial
profiles of both objects are consistent with those of local spiral galaxies and
are decomposed into a classic exponential disk and a central bulge. A
star-forming cluster or companion galaxy as well as a compact core are detected
in one of the galaxies at a redshift of 0.37+/-0.05. We discuss possible
explanations for the core including a small bulge, a nuclear starburst, or an
active nucleus. The same galaxy shows a peak disk surface brightness that is
brighter than local disks of comparable size. These observations demonstrate
the power of AO to reveal details of the morphology of distant faint galaxies
and to explore galaxy evolution.Comment: 5 pages, Latex, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in P.A.S.
On the construction of geomagnetic timescales from non-prejudicial treatment of magnetic anomaly data from multiple ridges
Detecting unambiguously non-Abelian geometric phases with trapped ions
We propose for the first time an experimentally feasible scheme to disclose
the noncommutative effects induced by a light-induced non-Abelian gauge
structure with trapped ions. Under an appropriate configuration, a true
non-Abelian gauge potential naturally arises in connection with the geometric
phase associated with two degenerated dark states in a four-state atomic system
interacting with three pulsed laser fields. We show that the population in
atomic state at the end of a composed path formed by two closed loops and
in the parameter space can be significantly different from the composed
counter-ordered path. This population difference is directly induced by the
noncommutative feature of non-Abelian geometric phases and can be detected
unambiguously with current technology.Comment: 6 page
Pion and Kaon Production in and Collisions at Next-to-Leading Order
We present new sets of fragmentation functions for charged pions and kaons,
both at leading and next-to-leading order. They are fitted to data on inclusive
charged-hadron production in annihilation taken by TPC at PEP (~GeV) and to similar data by ALEPH at LEP, who discriminated between
events with charm, bottom, and light- flavour fragmentation in their
charged-hadron sample. We treat all partons independently and to properly
incorporate the charm and bottom thresholds. Due to the sizeable energy gap
between PEP and LEP, we are sensitive to the scaling violation in the
fragmentation process, which allows us to extract a value for the asymptotic
scale parameter of QCD, . Recent data on inclusive charged-hadron
production in tagged three-jet events by OPAL and similar data for longitudinal
electron polarization by ALEPH allow us to pin down the gluon fragmentation
functions. Our new fragmentation functions lead to an excellent description of
a multitude of other data on inclusive charged-hadron production,
ranging from ~GeV to LEP energy. In addition, they agree nicely
with the transverse-momentum spectra of single charged hadrons measured by H1
and ZEUS in photoproduction at the collider HERA, which represents a
nontrivial check of the factorization theorem of the QCD-improved parton model.Comment: 22 pages, latex, 13 compressed ps figures in separate fil
Entanglement of Trapped-Ion Clock States
A M{\o}lmer-S{\o}rensen entangling gate is realized for pairs of trapped
Cd ions using magnetic-field insensitive "clock" states and an
implementation offering reduced sensitivity to optical phase drifts. The gate
is used to generate the complete set of four entangled states, which are
reconstructed and evaluated with quantum-state tomography. An average
target-state fidelity of 0.79 is achieved, limited by available laser power and
technical noise. The tomographic reconstruction of entangled states
demonstrates universal quantum control of two ion-qubits, which through
multiplexing can provide a route to scalable architectures for trapped-ion
quantum computing.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
Comparison of the Geometrical Characters Inside Quark- and Gluon-jet Produced by Different Flavor Quarks
The characters of the angular distributions of quark jets and gluon jets with
different flavors are carefully studied after introducing the cone angle of
jets. The quark jets and gluon jets are identified from the 3-jet events which
are produced by Monte Carlo simulation Jetset7.4 in e+e- collisions at =91.2GeV. It turns out that the ranges of angular distributions of gluon jets
are obviously wider than that of quark jets at the same energies. The average
cone angles of gluon jets are much larger than that of quark jets. As the
multiplicity or the transverse momentum increases, the cone-angle distribution
without momentum weight of both the quark jet and gluon jet all increases, i.e
the positive linear correlation are present, but the cone-angle distribution
with momentum weight decreases at first, then increases when n > 4 or p_t > 2
GeV. The characters of cone angular distributions of gluon jets produced by
quarks with different flavors are the same, while there are obvious differences
for that of the quark jets with different flavors.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures, to be published on the International Journal of
Modern Physics
Phenomenology of Decays
Using the QCD sum rules technique we study several aspects of the
phenomenology of the b-flavoured strange meson . In particular, we
evaluate the mass of the particle, the leptonic constant and the form factors
of the decays , , . We also calculate, in the factorization approximation, a number of
two-body non leptonic decays.Comment: 19 pages, 2 figures (not included) available upon request, LaTex,
BARI-TH/93-139, UTS-DFT-93-1
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