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Simulating quantum effects of cosmological expansion using a static ion trap
We propose a new experimental testbed that uses ions in the collective ground
state of a static trap for studying the analog of quantum-field effects in
cosmological spacetimes, including the Gibbons-Hawking effect for a single
detector in de Sitter spacetime, as well as the possibility of modeling
inflationary structure formation and the entanglement signature of de Sitter
spacetime. To date, proposals for using trapped ions in analog gravity
experiments have simulated the effect of gravity on the field modes by directly
manipulating the ions' motion. In contrast, by associating laboratory time with
conformal time in the simulated universe, we can encode the full effect of
curvature in the modulation of the laser used to couple the ions' vibrational
motion and electronic states. This model simplifies the experimental
requirements for modeling the analog of an expanding universe using trapped
ions and enlarges the validity of the ion-trap analogy to a wide range of
interesting cases.Comment: (v2) revisions based on referee comments, figure added for clarity;
(v1) 17 pages, no figure
Projected Gromov-Witten varieties in cominuscule spaces
A projected Gromov-Witten variety is the union of all rational curves of
fixed degree that meet two opposite Schubert varieties in a homogeneous space X
= G/P. When X is cominuscule we prove that the map from a related Gromov-Witten
variety is cohomologically trivial. This implies that all (3 point, genus zero)
K-theoretic Gromov-Witten invariants of X are determined by the projected
Gromov-Witten varieties, which extends an earlier result of Knutson, Lam, and
Speyer. Our proof uses that any projected Gromov-Witten variety in a
cominuscule space is also a projected Richardson variety.Comment: 13 page
Power laws, scale invariance, and generalized Frobenius series: Applications to Newtonian and TOV stars near criticality
We present a self-contained formalism for analyzing scale invariant
differential equations. We first cast the scale invariant model into its
equidimensional and autonomous forms, find its fixed points, and then obtain
power-law background solutions. After linearizing about these fixed points, we
find a second linearized solution, which provides a distinct collection of
power laws characterizing the deviations from the fixed point. We prove that
generically there will be a region surrounding the fixed point in which the
complete general solution can be represented as a generalized Frobenius-like
power series with exponents that are integer multiples of the exponents arising
in the linearized problem. This Frobenius-like series can be viewed as a
variant of Liapunov's expansion theorem. As specific examples we apply these
ideas to Newtonian and relativistic isothermal stars and demonstrate (both
numerically and analytically) that the solution exhibits oscillatory power-law
behaviour as the star approaches the point of collapse. These series solutions
extend classical results. (Lane, Emden, and Chandrasekhar in the Newtonian
case; Harrison, Thorne, Wakano, and Wheeler in the relativistic case.) We also
indicate how to extend these ideas to situations where fixed points may not
exist -- either due to ``monotone'' flow or due to the presence of limit
cycles. Monotone flow generically leads to logarithmic deviations from scaling,
while limit cycles generally lead to discrete self-similar solutions.Comment: 35 pages; IJMPA style fil
Complexity of colouring problems restricted to unichord-free and \{square,unichord\}-free graphs
A \emph{unichord} in a graph is an edge that is the unique chord of a cycle.
A \emph{square} is an induced cycle on four vertices. A graph is
\emph{unichord-free} if none of its edges is a unichord. We give a slight
restatement of a known structure theorem for unichord-free graphs and use it to
show that, with the only exception of the complete graph , every
square-free, unichord-free graph of maximum degree~3 can be total-coloured with
four colours. Our proof can be turned into a polynomial time algorithm that
actually outputs the colouring. This settles the class of square-free,
unichord-free graphs as a class for which edge-colouring is NP-complete but
total-colouring is polynomial
From Bell's Theorem to Secure Quantum Key Distribution
Any Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocol consists first of sequences of
measurements that produce some correlation between classical data. We show that
these correlation data must violate some Bell inequality in order to contain
distillable secrecy, if not they could be produced by quantum measurements
performed on a separable state of larger dimension. We introduce a new QKD
protocol and prove its security against any individual attack by an adversary
only limited by the no-signaling condition.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, REVTEX
Bell inequalities for three systems and arbitrarily many measurement outcomes
We present a family of Bell inequalities for three parties and arbitrarily
many outcomes, which can be seen as a natural generalization of the Mermin Bell
inequality. For a small number of outcomes, we verify that our inequalities
define facets of the polytope of local correlations. We investigate the quantum
violations of these inequalities, in particular with respect to the Hilbert
space dimension. We provide strong evidence that the maximal quantum violation
can only be reached using systems with local Hilbert space dimension exceeding
the number of measurement outcomes. This suggests that our inequalities can be
used as multipartite dimension witnesses.Comment: v1 6 pages, 4 tables; v2 Published version with minor typos correcte
Quantum correlations and secret bits
It is shown that (i) all entangled states can be mapped by single-copy
measurements into probability distributions containing secret correlations, and
(ii) if a probability distribution obtained from a quantum state contains
secret correlations, then this state has to be entangled. These results prove
the existence of a two-way connection between secret and quantum correlations
in the process of preparation. They also imply that either it is possible to
map any bound entangled state into a distillable probability distribution or
bipartite bound information exists.Comment: 4 pages, published versio
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