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Coming From Good Stock: Career Histories and New Venture Formation
We examine how the social structure of existing organizations influences entrepreneurship and suggest that resources accrue to entrepreneurs based on the structural position of their prior employers. We argue that information advantages allow individuals from entrepreneurially prominent prior firms to identify new opportunities. Entrepreneurial prominence also reduces the perceived uncertainty of a new venture. Using a sample of Silicon Valley start-ups, we demonstrate that entrepreneurial prominence is associated with initial strategy and the probability of attracting external financing. New ventures with high prominence are more likely to be innovators; furthermore, innovators with high prominence are more likely to obtain financing
A Careers Perspective on Entrepreneurship
[Excerpt] What if being an entrepreneur were treated like any other occupation—teacher, nurse, manager? What if the decision to found a new venture were thought of as one of many options that individuals consider as they try to structure a meaningful and rewarding career? How would the field of entrepreneurship research be different? In our view, there is much to be learned by conceiving of entrepreneurship not solely as a final destination, but as a step along a career trajectory. Doing so opens the study of entrepreneurship to a wider range of scholarly insights, and promises important insights for entrepreneurial practice, training, and policy. This special issue takes an important step in this direction
Bogoliubov theory of entanglement in a Bose-Einstein condensate
We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate which is illuminated by a short
resonant light pulse that coherently couples two internal states of the atoms.
We show that the subsequent time evolution prepares the atoms in an interesting
entangled state called a spin squeezed state. This evolution is analysed in
detail by developing a Bogoliubov theory which describes the entanglement of
the atoms. Our calculation is a consistent expansion in , where
is the number of particles in the condensate, and our theory predict that it is
possible to produce spin squeezing by at least a factor of . Within
the Bogoliubov approximation this result is independent of temperature.Comment: 14 pages, including 5 figures, minor changes in the presentatio
The Generic, Incommensurate Transition in the two-dimensional Boson Hubbard Model
The generic transition in the boson Hubbard model, occurring at an
incommensurate chemical potential, is studied in the link-current
representation using the recently developed directed geometrical worm
algorithm. We find clear evidence for a multi-peak structure in the energy
distribution for finite lattices, usually indicative of a first order phase
transition. However, this multi-peak structure is shown to disappear in the
thermodynamic limit revealing that the true phase transition is second order.
These findings cast doubts over the conclusion drawn in a number of previous
works considering the relevance of disorder at this transition.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figure
Multi-particle entanglement of hot trapped ions
We propose an efficient method to produce multi-particle entangled states of
ions in an ion trap for which a wide range of interesting effects and
applications have been suggested. Our preparation scheme exploits the
collective vibrational motion of the ions, but it works in such a way that this
motion need not be fully controlled in the experiment. The ions may, e.g., be
in thermal motion and exchange mechanical energy with a surrounding heat bath
without detrimental effects on the internal state preparation. Our scheme does
not require access to the individual ions in the trap.Comment: 4 pages, including 3 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. This
paper previously appeared under the name "Schrodingers cat in a hot trap".
The paper has been revised according to Phys. Rev. policy on Schrodinger
cats. No cats were harmed during the production of this manuscrip
Efficient qubit detection using alkali earth metal ions and a double STIRAP process
We present a scheme for robust and efficient projection measurement of a
qubit consisting of the two magnetic sublevels in the electronic ground state
of alkali earth metal ions. The scheme is based on two stimulated Raman
adiabatic passages (STIRAP) involving four partially coherent laser fields. We
show how the efficiency depends on experimentally relevant parameters: Rabi
frequencies, pulse widths, laser linewidths, one- and two-photon detunings,
residual laser power, laser polarization and ion motion.Comment: 14 pages, 15 figure
Mesoscopic Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Quantum Dots
We describe an electrodynamic mechanism for coherent, quantum mechanical
coupling between spacially separated quantum dots on a microchip. The technique
is based on capacitive interactions between the electron charge and a
superconducting transmission line resonator, and is closely related to atomic
cavity quantum electrodynamics. We investigate several potential applications
of this technique which have varying degrees of complexity. In particular, we
demonstrate that this mechanism allows design and investigation of an on-chip
double-dot microscopic maser. Moreover, the interaction may be extended to
couple spatially separated electron spin states while only virtually populating
fast-decaying superpositions of charge states. This represents an effective,
controllable long-range interaction, which may facilitate implementation of
quantum information processing with electron spin qubits and potentially allow
coupling to other quantum systems such as atomic or superconducting qubits.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
Antiferromagnetic noise correlations in optical lattices
We analyze how noise correlations probed by time-of-flight (TOF) experiments
reveal antiferromagnetic (AF) correlations of fermionic atoms in
two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) optical lattices. Combining
analytical and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations using experimentally
realistic parameters, we show that AF correlations can be detected for
temperatures above and below the critical temperature for AF ordering. It is
demonstrated that spin-resolved noise correlations yield important information
about the spin ordering. Finally, we show how to extract the spin correlation
length and the related critical exponent of the AF transition from the noise.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Structure of boson systems beyond the mean-field
We investigate systems of identical bosons with the focus on two-body
correlations. We use the hyperspherical adiabatic method and a decomposition of
the wave function in two-body amplitudes. An analytic parametrization is used
for the adiabatic effective radial potential. We discuss the structure of a
condensate for arbitrary scattering length. Stability and time scales for
various decay processes are estimated. The previously predicted Efimov-like
states are found to be very narrow. We discuss the validity conditions and
formal connections between the zero- and finite-range mean-field
approximations, Faddeev-Yakubovskii formulation, Jastrow ansatz, and the
present method. We compare numerical results from present work with mean-field
calculations and discuss qualitatively the connection with measurements.Comment: 26 pages, 6 figures, submitted to J. Phys. B. Ver. 2 is 28 pages with
modified figures and discussion
Longitudinal modeling of age-dependent latent traits with generalized additive latent and mixed models
We present generalized additive latent and mixed models (GALAMMs) for
analysis of clustered data with responses and latent variables depending
smoothly on observed variables. A scalable maximum likelihood estimation
algorithm is proposed, utilizing the Laplace approximation, sparse matrix
computation, and automatic differentiation. Mixed response types,
heteroscedasticity, and crossed random effects are naturally incorporated into
the framework. The models developed were motivated by applications in cognitive
neuroscience, and two case studies are presented. First, we show how GALAMMs
can jointly model the complex lifespan trajectories of episodic memory, working
memory, and speed/executive function, measured by the California Verbal
Learning Test (CVLT), digit span tests, and Stroop tests, respectively. Next,
we study the effect of socioeconomic status on brain structure, using data on
education and income together with hippocampal volumes estimated by magnetic
resonance imaging. By combining semiparametric estimation with latent variable
modeling, GALAMMs allow a more realistic representation of how brain and
cognition vary across the lifespan, while simultaneously estimating latent
traits from measured items. Simulation experiments suggest that model estimates
are accurate even with moderate sample sizes
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