Squeezing more out of a laser

A laser's intensity can be stabilized by negative feedback from a conventional photodetector. I propose extraction of sub-shot-noise light from the feedback loop at a beam splitter by illuminating the back side of the beam splitter with squeezed-state light

Predicting Future Duration from Present Age: A Critical Assessment

Using a temporal version of the Copernican principle, Gott has proposed a statistical predictor of future longevity based on present age [J. R. Gott III, Nature 363, 315 (1993)] and applied the predictor to a variety of examples, including the longevity of the human species. Though Gott's proposal contains a grain of truth, it does not have the universal predictive power that he attributes to it.Comment: 17 pages, standard LaTeX; to be published in Contemporary Physic

Effects of mergers and acquisitions on the economy: an industrial organization perspective

Consolidation and merger of corporations ; Industries

Properties of the frequency operator do not imply the quantum probability postulate

We review the properties of the frequency operator for an infinite number of systems and disprove claims in the literature that the quantum probability postulate can be derived from these properties.Comment: 21 pages, no figures, REVTEX. Only change in v.2 is change the title of Sec. IIIC so that it doesn't have a \cite command in it. v.3 incorporates changes that will be published as an erratum in Annals of Physic

Gravitational radiation and the ultimate speed in Rosen's Bimetric theory of gravity

Emission of gravitational radiation was shown to prevent particles of nonzero rest mass from exceeding the speed of gravitational radiation

Explicit product ensembles for separable quantum states

We present a general method for constructing pure-product-state representations for density operators of $N$ quantum bits. If such a representation has nonnegative expansion coefficients, it provides an explicit separable ensemble for the density operator. We derive the condition for separability of a mixture of the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state with the maximally mixed state.Comment: 15 pages, no figure

Entangling power of the quantum baker's map

We investigate entanglement production in a class of quantum baker's maps. The dynamics of these maps is constructed using strings of qubits, providing a natural tensor-product structure for application of various entanglement measures. We find that, in general, the quantum baker's maps are good at generating entanglement, producing multipartite entanglement amongst the qubits close to that expected in random states. We investigate the evolution of several entanglement measures: the subsystem linear entropy, the concurrence to characterize entanglement between pairs of qubits, and two proposals for a measure of multipartite entanglement. Also derived are some new analytical formulae describing the levels of entanglement expected in random pure states.Comment: 22 pages, 11 figure