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Functional Quantum Nodes for Entanglement Distribution over Scalable Quantum Networks
We demonstrate entanglement distribution between two remote quantum nodes
located 3 meters apart. This distribution involves the asynchronous preparation
of two pairs of atomic memories and the coherent mapping of stored atomic
states into light fields in an effective state of near maximum polarization
entanglement. Entanglement is verified by way of the measured violation of a
Bell inequality, and can be used for communication protocols such as quantum
cryptography. The demonstrated quantum nodes and channels can be used as
segments of a quantum repeater, providing an essential tool for robust
long-distance quantum communication.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures. Text revised, additional information included in
Appendix. Published online in Science Express, 5 April, 200
Solution of the Three--Anyon Problem
We solve, by separation of variables, the problem of three anyons with a
harmonic oscillator potential. The anyonic symmetry conditions from cyclic
permutations are separable in our coordinates. The conditions from two-particle
transpositions are not separable, but can be expressed as reflection symmetry
conditions on the wave function and its normal derivative on the boundary of a
circle. Thus the problem becomes one-dimensional. We solve this problem
numerically by discretization. -point discretization with very small is
often a good first approximation, on the other hand convergence as
is sometimes very slow.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX2.0
Calabi-Yau Black Holes and Enhancement of Supersymmetry in Five Dimensions
BPS electric and magnetic black hole solutions which break half of
supersymmetry in the theory of N=2 five-dimensional supergravity are discussed.
For models which arise as compactifications of M-theory on a Calabi-Yau
manifold, these solutions correspond, respectively, to the two and five branes
wrapping around the homology cycles of the Calabi-Yau compact space. The
electric solutions are reviewed and the magnetic solutions are constructed. The
near-horizon physics of these solutions is examined and in particular the
phenomenon of the enhancement of supersymmetry. The solutions for the
supersymmetric Killing spinor of the near horizon geometry, identified as
and are also given.Comment: 12 pages, Latex file. CAMS/AU
Control of decoherence in the generation of photon pairs from atomic ensembles
We report an investigation to establish the physical mechanisms responsible
for decoherence in the generation of photon pairs from atomic ensembles, via
the protocol of Duan et. al for long distance quantum communication [Nature
(London) 414, 413 (2001)] and present the experimental techniques necessary to
properly control the process. We develop a theory to model in detail the
decoherence process in experiments with magneto-optical traps. The
inhomogeneous broadening of the ground state by the trap magnetic field is
identified as the principal mechanism for decoherence. In conjunction with our
theoretical analysis, we report a series of measurements to characterize and
control the coherence time in our experimental setup. We use copropagating
stimulated Raman spectroscopy to access directly the ground state energy
distribution of the ensemble. These spectroscopic measurements allow us to
switch off the trap magnetic field in a controlled way, optimizing the
repetition rate for single-photon measurements. With the magnetic field off, we
then measure nonclassical correlations for pairs of photons generated by the
ensemble as a function of the storage time of the single collective atomic
excitation. We report coherence times longer than 10 microseconds,
corresponding to an increase of two orders of magnitude compared to previous
results in cold ensembles. The coherence time is now two orders of magnitude
longer than the duration of the excitation pulses. The comparison between these
experimental results and the theory shows good agreement. Finally, we employ
our theory to devise ways to improve the experiment by optical pumping to
specific initial states.Comment: 16 pages, 11 figures, submitted for publicatio
Direct measurement of decoherence for entanglement between a photon and stored atomic excitation
Violations of a Bell inequality are reported for an experiment where one of
two entangled qubits is stored in a collective atomic memory for a user-defined
time delay. The atomic qubit is found to preserve the violation of a Bell
inequality for storage times up to 21 microseconds, 700 times longer than the
duration of the excitation pulse that creates the entanglement. To address the
question of the security of entanglement-based cryptography implemented with
this system, an investigation of the Bell violation as a function of the
cross-correlation between the generated nonclassical fields is reported, with
saturation of the violation close to the maximum value allowed by quantum
mechanics.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Minor changes. Published versio
Towards experimental entanglement connection with atomic ensembles in the single excitation regime
We present a protocol for performing entanglement connection between pairs of
atomic ensembles in the single excitation regime. Two pairs are prepared in an
asynchronous fashion and then connected via a Bell measurement. The resulting
state of the two remaining ensembles is mapped to photonic modes and a reduced
density matrix is then reconstructed. Our observations confirm for the first
time the creation of coherence between atomic systems that never interacted, a
first step towards entanglement connection, a critical requirement for quantum
networking and long distance quantum communications
Curve Flows in Lagrange-Finsler Geometry, Bi-Hamiltonian Structures and Solitons
Methods in Riemann-Finsler geometry are applied to investigate bi-Hamiltonian
structures and related mKdV hierarchies of soliton equations derived
geometrically from regular Lagrangians and flows of non-stretching curves in
tangent bundles. The total space geometry and nonholonomic flows of curves are
defined by Lagrangian semisprays inducing canonical nonlinear connections
(N-connections), Sasaki type metrics and linear connections. The simplest
examples of such geometries are given by tangent bundles on Riemannian
symmetric spaces provided with an N-connection structure and an
adapted metric, for which we elaborate a complete classification, and by
generalized Lagrange spaces with constant Hessian. In this approach,
bi-Hamiltonian structures are derived for geometric mechanical models and
(pseudo) Riemannian metrics in gravity. The results yield horizontal/ vertical
pairs of vector sine-Gordon equations and vector mKdV equations, with the
corresponding geometric curve flows in the hierarchies described in an explicit
form by nonholonomic wave maps and mKdV analogs of nonholonomic Schrodinger
maps on a tangent bundle.Comment: latex 2e 50 pages, the manuscript is a Lagrange-Finsler
generalization of the solitonic Riemannian formalism from math-ph/0608024, v3
modified following requests of Editor/Referee of J. Geom. Phys., new
references and discussion provided in Conclusio
Free Relativistic Anyons with Canonical Spin Algebra
We discuss a relativistic free particle with fractional spin in 2+1
dimensions, where the dual spin components satisfy the canonical angular
momentum algebra . It is shown that it is a general consequence of these
features that the Poincar\`e invariance is broken down to the Lorentz one, so
indicating that it is not possible to keep simultaneously the free nature of
the anyon and the translational invariance.Comment: Complete version with reference
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